[PLUG] Qt and font handling

Timothy Grant tjg at craigelachie.org
Fri Apr 12 22:26:35 UTC 2002


On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 09:55, Timothy Grant wrote:
> Fonts look great in all my GTK apps, however, I do have a couple of Qt
> apps and play with PyQt, and not only do the fonts look like crap, I
> can't even get Qt to work with my TrueType fonts.
> 
> I built Qt 3.0 from source and told it to use Xft when it built, and I
> am downloading the newest source 3.0.3 and will go through the procedure
> again just to see what's going on. I'm thinking about taking a look at
> KDE 3.0, but won't go anywhere near it if I can't get some decent font
> rendering.

So, I think replying to your own posts is like laughing at your own
jokes, but...

I built Qt 3.0.3 today, and the font dialogues now display my TT fonts
and everything, so I'm guessing there must have been some font problem
in Qt 3.0. Things still aren't perfect, but they are vastly improved.

-- 
Stand Fast,
    tjg.

Timothy Grant
www.craigelachie.org
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