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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Ruler fonts wrong in KWord 1.2beta1
From:       Ned Konz <ned () bike-nomad ! com>
Date:       2002-04-30 15:44:17
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On Monday 29 April 2002 11:23 pm, you wrote:
> 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.

Hmm... the interesting thing here (to me) is that the charset of the 
Starbats font (microsoft-symbol) is one that's not likely to be 
useful to anything.

Does Kword ask for a particular character set?

> KWord asks for the SansSerif font in the document, and apparently
> Qt thinks that Starbats fits that description.

Though when the numbers appear in the ruler, they have serifs. So 
KWord is apparently not using "sans serif" for the ruler font.

> 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?

3.0.3

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Ned Konz
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