[mythtv-users] How to fonts work in Myth?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Jul 15 15:52:32 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 15 July 2003 01:35 pm, Alan Messer wrote:
> I'm still having problems with small (unreadable)
> fonts in my mythtv setup. Last night I removed X
> windows (in debian) and re-installed everything using
> apt from the debian and myth packages. Still
> unreadable fonts.
>
> How does Myth find and use the FreeSans and FreeMono
> truetype fonts? I know it uses FreeType V2, but I'm
> unclear how Myth or FreeType knows where these fonts
> are? Is there any way to verify that the fonts are
> being found correctly?

Everything but the OSD during video playback uses standard Qt fonts.  Do you 
have the MS corefonts installed?  Might want to try grabbing those..  
(http://corefonts.sf.net or the msttcorefonts deb)

> BTW: I've tried the DPI issue and it doesn't seem to
> help much if I go down to 48x48 DPI.

Try 100x100.

Isaac


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