[scribus-dev] text size in the browser in 1.5.0

"Christoph Schäfer" christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
Sun Sep 8 07:31:08 UTC 2013


> Gesendet: Sonntag, 08. September 2013 um 09:08 Uhr
> Von: "Craig Bradney" <cbradney at scribus.info>
> An: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: Re: [scribus-dev] text size in the browser in 1.5.0
>
> On 8/09/13 9:00 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
> >> Gesendet: Sonntag, 08. September 2013 um 08:09 Uhr
> >> Von: plinnell <plinnell at scribus.net>
> >> An: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
> >> Betreff: Re: [scribus-dev] text size in the browser in 1.5.0
> >>
> >> On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:17:30 -0400
> >> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have been trying and failing to find out where the browser text
> >>> size is set in 1.5.0.
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if it hasn't been set and what we see is some Qt
> >>> default. For my screens it's much too large, and there doesn't seem
> >>> to be a way for the user to adjust it either.
> >>>
> >>> Greg
> >>
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> On openSUSE its /usr/bin/qtconfig-qt5, so I would imagine its something
> >> similar on Fedora. Its in the qttools package.
> >>
> >> Hope that helps,
> >>
> >> Peter
> > 
> > This reminds me of a suggestion I made a few months ago, namely using the Apache-licensed Droid Sans Regular font for the UI by default on every OS except OS X. It reduces the screen estate of dialogs significantly and nevertheless provides excellent legibility. As a side effect, screenshots for the docs would also become smaller. This would of course mean adding the font to the Scribus packages/installers.
> > 
> > As for the Online Help, users should be able to choose a font that works best for them from within Scribus. In my 1.5.0svn build, the help pages look like sh**, while they're being rendered just fine in 1.4.3, which has been built with exactly the same Qt version.
> > 
> > Christoph
> 
> 
> Which has absolutely nothing to do with Scribus. Its your Qt config driving that and your DE likely
> configuring your Qt 4.
> 
> Craig
> 

Then why do help pages look so terribly ugly in 1.5.0svn (compiled against Qt4) and don't in 1.4.3?

Christoph



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