search

qissue-bot / QGIS

QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
http://qgis.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
0 stars 0 forks source link

Font label settings not working on OS X #1739

Closed qissue-bot closed 5 years ago

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Author Name: John Tull (John Tull) Original Redmine Issue: 1752, https://issues.qgis.org/issues/1752

Original Assignee: Tom Elwertowski

When changing the font settings for labels in the properties dialog for a vector layer, the font selector is brought up but changes to the fonts make no effect on the label display. Looking at the qgs file, the fonts stay on their default of Lucinda Grande 12.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2009-07-15T07:54:36.000Z

Hmm, works for me. My 1.1.0 build.

I tested with OTF, TTF (flat), [[PostScript]] (resource fork), and dfont fonts. And both activated by placement in standard font folders and by a font manager (Linotype Fontexplorer (free)).

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: John Tull (John Tull) Original Date: 2009-07-15T10:17:11.000Z

It still is not working for me regardless of a cmake or xcode build. I am using qt-4.5.2, so I am thinking it might have something to do with Qt. Which qt are you using?

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2009-07-15T10:36:36.000Z

4.4.something. I've been holding off on 4.5 until I hear more about whether Qgis is supposed to be compatible with 4.5, or just "it should be, but...". So far I'm just hearing about issues like this one.

Are you using the standard version or the Cocoa version?

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: John Tull (John Tull) Original Date: 2009-07-15T10:39:02.000Z

I am using the carbon version. The Cocoa version had different problems that I could not get past with qgis.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2009-08-04T04:35:45.000Z

Ah, after updating to Qt 4.5(.2), font selection now does not work for me either.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: John Tull (John Tull) Original Date: 2009-08-04T14:57:18.000Z

Unfortunately, did not fix this problem.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2009-08-05T05:11:25.000Z

Here's a possibility: the font selection now uses the system font dialog:

QFileDialog

On Mac, native dialogs are now used when calling show, open, or exec on a QFileDialog, QColorDialog, QPrintDialog, or QFontDialog (i.e not only when using the static functions)

Maybe it's returning the font specification in a Mac-specific form that Qgis doesn't understand?

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: Tom Elwertowski (Tom Elwertowski) Original Date: 2009-08-05T16:57:30.000Z

This appears to be a Qt bug. The new native Mac font dialog seems to work (for some fonts) only in 64-bit builds. The workaround is to used the old non-native font dialog for 32-bit builds.

Fixed by commit:2cb06056 (SVN r11281) (workaround).

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: John Tull (John Tull) Original Date: 2009-08-05T18:37:15.000Z

Great work, Tom. This does get around the issue. I agree that it is probably a qt bug, which has been my hunch. I could not find anything about this on their mail lists.

The same problem exists in the map composer. I've attached the two cpp files with the necessary edits. Not sure how to create the patch file.

I was close to finding this workaround today, but gave up. I was unclear on how to call the [[DoNotUseNativeDialog]] option and gave up. Glad to see your still keeping an eye on mac-related issues. I will look into qt-64 bit, although I hit some other problems when I tried that a month or so back that I cannot recall now.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: Tom Elwertowski (Tom Elwertowski) Original Date: 2009-08-06T07:04:09.000Z

Attached map composer fixes submitted as .

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (Jürgen Fischer) Original Date: 2009-08-06T09:27:18.000Z

Replying to [comment:9 jctull]:

The same problem exists in the map composer. I've attached the two cpp files with the necessary edits. Not sure how to create the patch file.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2010-10-12T05:41:24.000Z

Either it wasn't really fixed, or it's back. Reported in #3105. It goes beyond vectors (maybe this originally did, but noone noticed) -- all layout and map composer font selection seems to be affected.

Now with Qgis 1.5, Qt 4.6 Cocoa, both OSX 10.5 and 10.6.

OSX 10.6 64bit: some fonts work, some fonts snap to another when selected and/or don't display the correct font. I don't see any pattern of kinds of fonts (PS, OTF, TT, Mac) or whether they are loaded directly by the system from standard font folders or from a font manager.

OSX 10.5 32bit: same behavior as this original bug - font is selected in the font dialog, but display doesn't change and font snaps back to Lucida Grande. Though it looks like Qt 4.6 Cocoa now forces the Mac font dialog, whether or not the program asks for it (ie from ).

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2010-10-12T06:10:43.000Z

More:

Also happens with trunk, OSX 10.6.

OSX 10.5 PPC Qt 4.6 Carbon: uses Qgis/Qt font dialog and font selection seems to work.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: CK - (CK -) Original Date: 2011-02-05T20:07:39.000Z

Hi, I had this and other problems after upgrading to Snow Leopard. Problem is now solved following a 'clean install' of SL. CK

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2011-02-06T07:41:37.000Z

Reinstalling the system is too general, and I've tried it on a clean system.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2011-02-06T09:12:00.000Z

I've been meaning to poke at this, so here's some more test results. I changed the dialog code to force non-native for all Cocoa Qt, then tried some fonts.

Once a font is selected and OK'd (back to the map display, but not back to the labeling dialog), one of two things may happen the next time the font dialog is shown:

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2011-02-27T08:08:03.000Z

Looking into this some more, checking things I should have... There is a Qt bug for 4.6.3 for the problem where it sometimes ignores [[DontUseNativeDialog]]. Fixed in 4.7.1.

A couple hits for the selection issue in native dialogs.

One Qt bug seems to be similar, but it's only fixed for Qt 4.8.

Another suggests that if the initial font specified in getFont() is invalid, the dialog always returns the default font, which was the original problem of this Qgis bug report.

I guess I need to look at Qt 4.7 again, I had other issues with that but forgot to write anything down.

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: John Tull (John Tull) Original Date: 2011-03-02T12:20:12.000Z

This problem persists on OS X. - bug update for 1.7 release

qissue-bot commented 5 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: William Kyngesburye (William Kyngesburye) Original Date: 2011-03-03T09:43:19.000Z

Verified that the [[DontUseNativeDialog]] Qt bug is fixed in 4.7.1, so Qgis can force the Qt font dialog starting with Qt 4.7.1. commit:e4389418 (SVN r15324) forces the Qt font dialog for Qt Cocoa. With Qt 4.5-4.6 it will try, though generally fail, to do so, but that's all it can do.

Font selection is still problematic, though it's also probably a Qt bug. But I think I now have the pattern for what fonts can't be used. Although all fonts can be selected in the Qt font dialog, some display with the default font (ie Helvetica). These include all non-roman OTF fonts, like CJK and symbol fonts. some examples:

CJK/symbol fonts that work because they're TT or PS fonts:

Closing as fixed, though it's only fixed as far as it can be within QGIS (dialog only for Qt 4.7.1+, font display works within limits).