[mythtv-users] Only small font in theme

[Bill Bradley]

On Friday 13 February 2004 07:21 am, Philippe C. Cattin wrote:
> Executive Summary:
>
> - Problem: only small font in theme (setup doesn't help)
> - Analysis: theme uses font family that it not available and therefor
>      uses a small default font.
> - Solution: either install the missing font or change the theme font
>
>
> If you have more time:
>
> the other week I was reinstalling my myth box from scratch with all the
> latest and freshest patches. after reinstalling the fonts were very
> small and fiddling around with the font size in the setup screen didn't
> help. even changing the size in the theme xml files didn't improve the
> situation.
>
> it turned out that my problem was, that the theme used a font (Arial)
> that wasn't installed on my system. as soon as I changed to font family
> in the theme file from Arial to something else everything worked like a
> charm.
>
> I hope someone can save some time with this hint.
>
> regards, Philippe

Also for OSD fonts...Place a .ttf font file in your myth base dir ie. 
</usr/share/myth> and it will be available for the OSD font selections....

cheers,
bill bradley