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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Ruler fonts wrong in KWord 1.2beta1
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-04-30 6:23:02
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:47:16PM -0700, Ned Konz wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know whether this is a better question for koffice-devel, but 
> here goes:
> 
> I have KDE 3.0.0 (from RPMs), and I just compiled KWord 1.2.beta1 from 
> the source RPMs. Although I have a Red Hat system and the SRPMs were 
> for Mandrake, the compile went well and I can run KWord.
> 
> However, when I start KWord, the font used for the numbers in the 
> rulers is (apparently) set to "Starbats [Xft]", so I see strange 
> symbols instead of the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. that should be there.
> 
> If I pop down the font choice tab, and select the same font (which is 
> "Arial [Xft]" by default,), then the font will usually change to one 
> that has proper numbers.
> 
> However, if I then choose a font like Starbats in my text, the ruler 
> will change back to Starbats and will stay there, no matter whether I 
> change the text font later.
> 
> Other data points: The first time I started up KWord, the font was 
> Starbats everywhere. Then I set the default font to Arial in KWord 
> settings, and at least the text starts out right.
> 

This looks like your Starbats font is mistakinly announcing itself as
a SansSerif font. This is something in the font, so your font could be
buggy.

KWord asks for the SansSerif font in the document, and apparently Qt 
thinks that Starbats fits that description.
I don't know which algoritm is used by Qt to retrieve that font, but 
try to see if you have Helvetica installed, or just deinstall the Starbats
font.

You could also try to upgrade your Qt version. Which version are you running?
-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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