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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-29582

Qt5 ignores fontconfig

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P1: Critical
    • 5.1.0
    • 5.0.1
    • GUI: Font handling
    • None
    • OS: Arch Linux, DE: KDE4
    • 241ee2ee4208eb6b338390f82b71f1b1d7c4c5b0

    Description

      I build a test app using next source codes:

      #include <QApplication>
      #include <QLabel>
      
      int main(int argc, char **argv) {
      	QApplication app(argc, argv);
      	QLabel label;
      	label.setText("Test Font");
      	label.adjustSize();
      	label.show();
      	return app.exec();
      }
      

      with Qt 4.8.4(distro package) and Qt 5.0.1(both of custom build and official prebuild package from qt-project.org). The results are attatched.
      Each font of test-qt4 and test-qt5 is definetly different, and hinting option is also different.
      I think this is because font rendering of test-qt5 is not applied fontconfig.(the font of test-qt4 follows fontconfig correctly)

      It can be confirmed by ldd. The linked libraries of test-qt4 list contain libfontconfig:

      1. ldd test-qt4 | grep libfontconfig
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f2e3acab000)
        , but those of test-qt5 don't('ldd test-qt5 | grep libfontconfig' shows nothig).
        Of couse, Qt5 is built with support of fontconfig with -fontconfig option for configure and I double-checked it:
        #grep FontConfig config.summary
        FontConfig support ..... yes

      I deeply hope Qt5 handles fontconfig well.

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