GUI messages completely illegible

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Author Name: carluti - (carluti -) Original Redmine Issue: 503

Redmine category:gui Assignee: nobody -

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All messages in menu bars, windows, etc. seem to have lots of letter mixed.

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• Pantallazo.png (carluti-users-sourceforge-net -)

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Author Name: carluti-users-sourceforge-net - (carluti-users-sourceforge-net -)

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Partially reproduced in another pc using also debian etch. Menu bar entries look fine, but layer names in leyend and texts in some windows have the same problem. Both pc are used in Spanish and qgis is also in Spanish.

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Author Name: Gavin Macaulay - (Gavin Macaulay -)

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What version of Qt is qgis compiled and running against (this information is available via the Help:About menu, About tab)?

Have you compiled qgis or used a package (if so, which one)?

Does the problem happen with the english translation?

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Author Name: Redmine Admin (Redmine Admin)

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It does not happen here, neither with it_IT nor with es_ES locales. Please provide more details.

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Author Name: anonymous - (anonymous -)

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Replying to [comment:3 g_j_m]:

What version of Qt is qgis compiled and running against (this information is available via the Help:About menu, About tab)? Quite difficult to read, but it seems to be Qt 4.2.1 Have you compiled qgis or used a package (if so, which one)? Using gfoss 0.8.0 package

Does the problem happen with the english translation? export LANG=en_EN give same problem in the first computer. Tomorrow will try the other.

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Author Name: carluti-users-sourceforge-net - (carluti-users-sourceforge-net -)

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Replying to [comment:6 anonymous]:

Replying to [comment:3 g_j_m]:

What version of Qt is qgis compiled and running against (this information is available via the Help:About menu, About tab)?

Quite difficult to read, but it seems to be Qt 4.2.1 Have you compiled qgis or used a package (if so, which one)? Using gfoss 0.8.0-2 package

Does the problem happen with the english translation? export LANG=en_EN gives same problem in the first computer. Tomorrow will try the other. Confirmed in both machines. A third one with similar installation works fine. What other information would be relavant to guess where is the problem?

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Author Name: carluti-users-sourceforge-net - (carluti-users-sourceforge-net -)

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Behaviour is very extrange. After working for some time on a project or creating new projects for test, menu bar, leyend, status bar and most windows displays correctly all text, but after closing qgis and reopening it, again texts appear illegible. Any explanation?

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Author Name: Redmine Admin (Redmine Admin)

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I can confirm the bug, and its curious behaviour. It does not appear to be dependent on the hardware (only one of 5 IBM thinkpad had that problem) or the software (apparently same installation on 10 machines, only 2 showed it), or the desktop environment (not working: 1 on gnome, 1 on kde).

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Author Name: Redmine Admin (Redmine Admin)

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(untested) It has been reported that this depends on a QT bug. A workaround could be copying a .fonts.conf file on each home (see below), but surely there is a better solution. I report this here just to help solving the problem.

file: .fonts.conf

<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

none true hintfull true

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Author Name: carluti-users-sourceforge-net - (carluti-users-sourceforge-net -)

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Replying to [comment:10 cavallini@faunalia.it]:

I have used your solution in both machines I had this problem and now Qgis works well in both of them. Thank you

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Author Name: anonymous - (anonymous -)

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Hi all,

I've got the same problem, the "editing of fonts.conf" solution proposed worked pretty well!!!

Thanks a lot!

Enrico Guastaldi Geomatics Lab, Geological Risks and Geostatistics section Centro di [[GeoTecnologie]], University of Siena, Via Vetri Vecchi, 34 52027 - San Giovanni Valdarno (AR) ITALY

Tel. +39 055 9119483 Fax. +39 055 9119439 guastaldi@unisi.it www.geotecnologie.unisi.it

Replying to [comment:11 carluti@users.sourceforge.net]:

Replying to [comment:10 cavallini@faunalia.it]:

I have used your solution in both machines I had this problem and now Qgis works well in both of them. Thank you

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Author Name: Tim Sutton (Tim Sutton)

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Reading the messages above you seem to have the issue resolved. I am closing this bug - please reopen if the problem persists.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed
• resolution was changed from to fixed

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Author Name: Anónimo (Anónimo)

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Milestone Version 0.8.1 deleted