[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4044: OSD fonts badly rendered on a 16:9 HDTV

[Simon Kenyon]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Why are you feeling sick?  There are no less than 3 ways to change the
> font--two of which are mentioned in the above-linked post, and the third
> (and, probably, most intuitive) being to edit the font filename in the
> osd.xml file.
>   
just because i've been banging my head against this problem for a long 
while now
> One of the ways in the above-linked post (option a) changes the OSD
> theme such that it defers to the UI-selected font, the "OSD font"
> setting in the frontend settings--which seems to be what you want.
>   
what i really don't understand is why all the OSD themes don't honour 
that setting.
> If you're sick that I didn't tell you this when it was first important
> to you, then, please, pardon me. :)
>   
not your fault and i'm really not complaining - now i know how to work 
around it i'm happy
> Find the exacerbating factor (find why that font doesn't work on /your/
> system--I can't reproduce the issue), and it will be fixed properly.  I
> personally hate recommending workarounds--I don't work in the medical
> industry--I'd prefer to fix the problem rather than the symptom.
>   
my wild unsubstantiated theory is that it has something to do with the 
truetype font renderer.
but like i said, this is a wild theory.
--
simon