[Qt-interest] Some fonts don't work on Mac OS X

[Daniel Price]

This is absolutely crap. Four years! I bet that if this was a problem with a the Windows version it would fixed immediately even if it only effected a 10-year old OS like XP.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-
> bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Christophe de Dinechin
> Sent: 08 September 2010 20:53
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Some fonts don't work on Mac OS X
>
> HI,
>
>
> This is Qt bug 736, see http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-
> 736. This bug has been there since 4.3, and reported in June 2006. If
> you want to see it fixed, I guess the best is to hit the "vote" button
> on the bug report. I find it strange that Qt has been through 4 minot
> releases unable to display fonts properly on the Mac.
>
> It's not one or two fonts either. Here is the list of fonts that don't
> work on my machine: Academy Engraved LET, Bank Gothic, Big Caslon,
> Blackmoor LET, Bordeaux Roman Bold LET, Futura, GB18030 Bitmap, Hei,
> Jazz LET, Kai, Lucida Grande, Marker Felt, Optima, Party LET, Santa Fe
> LET, Savoye LET, Skia, Symbol, Times, Type Embellishments One LET,
> Verdana, Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats.
>
> I've been unable to find the common denominator. There are .dfont files
> and .ttc files, there are fonts in different locations, there is no
> obvious pattern in the Postscript name or style list... I didn't look
> for very long though. But it's an annoying bug.
>
>
> Christophe
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is related to my previous inquiry, I've done some more
> experimenting and on my
> > Mac OS X 10.5.2 with Qt 4.7 some fonts don't work properly in any Qt
> application.
> >
> > This includes all Qt Rich Text demo and Qt Creator and our own
> applications.
> >
> > Some fonts like Times and Myriad Pro Squeezed are rendered using
> something
> > that looks like Helvetica. All inquiries I've done for debugging
> purposes within
> > our applications indicate that the fonts that don't work are properly
> installed
> > and found, it is just that when they are rendered the wrong font is
> used.
> >
> > We have two other Macs running Snow Leopard and we do not see this
> problem there.
> >
> > I've tired all the standard font cache reseting methods and repaired
> file permissions.
> >
> > The fonts appear correctly on all other Mac applications that I've
> tested on my
> > machine.
> >
> > I'm baffled.
> >
> > br Kusti
>
>
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