Re: [XForms] Fonts used by Xforms on recent Fedora

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 05/06/2010 02:54 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 01:38 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> On 05/06/2010 01:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> On 05/04/2010 10:35 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>>>> Anyone know which *specific* font packages I need on a Fedora
>>>> system to
>>>> get XForms-based
>>>> applications to render correctly-sized text?
>>>>
>>>> On a "default" F11 and F12 installation, the text sizes are
>>>> wrong--spilling outside of their containing
>>>> objects, etc.
>>>
>>> I'll take a look, but I'll make you deal.
>>>
>>> you file a bug @ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ against fedora/xforms
>>> documenting the problem, and I promise to release an update that fixes
>>> it. :)
>>
>> For me, the specific piece that helped most was:
>>
>> yum install xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi
>>
>> (I used geomview application as a test-case).
>>
>> So, adding this as a dependency to xforms may be the best way to go at
>> this point.
>
> I take it back, (sorry) geomview doesn't use xforms.
>
> ok, I used fdesign as a test-case, and while font-sizes varied with
> different fonts available (the aforementioned -75dpi or -100dpi or
> neither), the layout still worked.  So, I'd venture that perhaps this
> may be application bug(s) wrt making assumptions about font dpi.
>
> -- Rex
>
>
>
>
No, my application (wrote myself) doesn't do *any* explicit font
selection.  It just uses the
  standard "small medium large" abstraction offered by the toolkit.

Same application on F9 and F10 rendered *on the same computer*
correctly.   After upgrade to
  F11 it wouldn't render properly, and the same behaviour showed up in F12.


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