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

[Daniel Price]

Is there any way to elevate this issue with Qt/Nokia? I'm blown away that such a fundamental feature is still broken.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-
> bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Kustaa Nyholm
> Sent: 09 September 2010 12:41
> To: Christophe de Dinechin; qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Some fonts don't work on Mac OS X
>
>
> > From: Christophe de Dinechin <christophe at taodyne.com>
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out, I'm sure you are right.
>
> This situation is pretty lame, fortunately we do not use Qt for Mac OS
> X
> development, only we have a few Macs where we do embedded development
> with
> Mac, it would really be a show stopper (or Qt stopper) if fonts were
> this
> erratic in something we deliver to customers.
>
> I've now updated my System to Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) and this
> seems to have cured the Myriad Pro Squeezed issue, it now displays
> correctly, however Times is still shown as Helvetica.
>
> br Kusti
>
>
>
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