Re: [XForms] Help with fonts

[Serge Bromow]

On 08/19/2018 01:59 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 06:32:11 -0700
> Marisa Giancarla wrote:
>
> > I am trying to update a app I wrote with xforms years ago, and on moden
> > ubuntu I am seeing this issue where the fonts dont look right. Any ideas
> > on what is going on?
> I have seen an issue similar to this before with Mate on Centos 7.
>
> In that situation it turned out to be a problem with the desktop theme.
>
> Try different themes and see if that fixes it.
I had the same problem after loading my software onto a new OS 
distribution.  The fonts appeared as they do in your example. It would 
appear older distributions favoured 75dpi as the first font resolution 
of choice. Unaware of this choice, I created my forms to match this dpi 
setting. I assume they choose 75 over 100 since it is first in line, dpi 
wise. Later distributions chose 100 first.  To preserve my work I force 
the use of 75dpi fonts by calling the following routine before calling 
fl_initialize().

void    xsetmyfonts()
{
fl_set_font_name(FL_NORMAL_STYLE, 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-*-*-*-*");

fl_set_font_name(FL_BOLD_STYLE, "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_ITALIC_STYLE, 
"-*-helvetica-medium-o-*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_BOLDITALIC_STYLE, 
"-*-helvetica-bold-o-no*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");

fl_set_font_name(FL_FIXED_STYLE, 
"-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-m-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_FIXEDBOLD_STYLE, 
"-adobe-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-m-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_FIXEDITALIC_STYLE, 
"-adobe-courier-medium-o-*-*-*-?-*-75-m-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_FIXEDBOLDITALIC_STYLE, 
"-adobe-courier-bold-o-*-*-*-?-*-75-m-*-*-*");

fl_set_font_name(FL_TIMES_STYLE, "-*-times-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_TIMESBOLD_STYLE, 
"-*-times-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_TIMESITALIC_STYLE, 
"-*-times-medium-i-*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_TIMESBOLDITALIC_STYLE, 
"-*-times-bold-i-*-*-*-?-*-75-p-*-*-*");


fl_set_font_name(FL_MISC_STYLE, "-*-charter-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-*-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_MISCBOLD_STYLE, 
"-*-charter-bold-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-*-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_MISCITALIC_STYLE, 
"-*-charter-medium-i-*-*-*-?-*-75-*-*-*-*");
fl_set_font_name(FL_SYMBOL_STYLE, 
"-*-symbol-medium-r-*-*-*-?-*-75-*-*-*-*");
}

Hope this helps,

Serge