[Qgis-user] font settings on mac (Fwd: Comments on the QGIS map composer)

[William Kyngesburye]

My last dev build includes that.

On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:27 PM, maning sambale wrote:

> Dear William,
> 
> Thanks for the fix.  Is this available now in your website?
> 
> As I need to quickly produce some layout, I had to edit by hand the
> qpt files in a text editor (ugh!).  While this works in many of my
> fontsize changes, when I tried reloading the qpt through the map
> composer, my custom labels in the legend box (group text and item text
> ) was not recognized.  Instead, it reverts back to the default legend
> layout.
> 
> The changes that were not included are not the font size but the text
> labels I modified within the Map composer.  I normally, move the layer
> label into the item label.
> 
> Anyway, happy to point out that you can edit layout settings via text editor. :)
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:17 AM, William Kyngesburye
> <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>> This is fixed in SVN.  It requires at least Qt Cocoa 4.7.1 since it was a Qt bug that ignored a flag passed to the font dialog (Qt Carbon is not affected, so the Mac dialog is used then).  Note that using the Qt font dialog is really a workaround because there are still (apparently) bugs in the native font dialog.  Also, while all fonts can be selected, some still don't display correctly.  And some odd font styles don't even show up in the choices.
>> 
>> On Mar 14, 2011, at 6:51 AM, maning sambale wrote:
>> 
>>> Reposting the issue below.
>>> 
>>> I'm using qgis 1.6 0n mac 10.5 and instead of the usual font window, I
>>> see the mac font window is used in the map composer  (see the sample
>>> image below).  I tried changing the font for several map elements
>>> (text window, grid font size) but I can't change it to the default
>>> "Lucida Grande" size "13"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> 4. On a mac, Scale font options uses the mac font option window
>>> instead of the usual QGIS font option window (see image link).
>>> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/5074097761_3d6af0fef4_z.jpg
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> cheers,
>>> maning
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> maning
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