[mythtv-users] Steppes Fonts in 0.28

scram69 scram69 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 22:58:22 UTC 2016


On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2016, at 6:02 PM, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/16/2016 03:14 PM, scram69 wrote:
>>
>>> I have recently upgraded to 0.28, and am having trouble with fonts in
>>> the Steppes theme.  I am seeing the following error messages on startup of
>>> the frontend (one of each type for each of the themes Steppes is attempting
>>> to load):
>>>
>>> 2016-10-16 11:05:39.309021 E [3873/1295] CoreContext
>>> mythfontproperties.cpp:406 (ParseFromXml) - MythFontProperties: Failed to
>>> load 'Liberation Mono', got 'Lucida Grande' instead
>>>
>>> Location: /Users/htpcmini/.mythtv/themes/Steppes/base.xml @ 21
>>>
>>> Name: 'basemono'Type: 'fontdef'
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-10-16 11:05:47.416124 E [3873/1295] CoreContext
>>> mythfontproperties.cpp:406 (ParseFromXml) - MythFontProperties: Failed to
>>> load 'DejaVu Sans', got 'Lucida Grande' instead
>>>
>>> Location: /Applications/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/share/myth
>>> tv/themes/default-wide/base.xml @ 11
>>>
>>> Name: 'basemedium'Type: 'fontdef'
>>>
>>>
>>> mythfontproperties is struggling with themes in both locations: the app
>>> directory and the .mythtv/themes directory.
>>>
>>> I have verified 1) the files are there and 2) they have world read
>>> permissions (as well as paths with world read and execute permissions).
>>>
>>> I do not see the same errors with other themes.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else having this problem with Steppes 0.28?
>>>
>>
>> Run with verbose options for file and gui and check the logs.
>>
> -v file,gui generated a ~1MB log file upon startup, so much to sift
> through.  I did find additional warnings from MythFontManager such as these:
>
> 2016-10-22 11:19:35.761633 W [3308/1295] CoreContext
> mythfontmanager.cpp:204 (LoadFontFile) - MythFontManager: Unable to load
> font(s) in file '/Applications/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources/share/
> mythtv/fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf'
>
> As well as these:
>
> 2016-10-22 11:19:49.854057 W [3308/1295] CoreContext
> mythfontmanager.cpp:204 (LoadFontFile) - MythFontManager: Unable to load
> font(s) in file '/Users/htpcmini/.mythtv/themes/Steppes/Fonts/
> LiberationSans-Regular.ttf'
>
> Notes:
> -the file exists in both places above and has world read permissions
> -this is a Mac OS X fronted (latest pre-built binary from SourceForge), so
> apt-get install is not an option
>
> When I switch to a working font (e.g. MythCenter Wide), I get the first
> type of warning (for the .app directory) but no warnings or load messages
> for anything in .mythtv/themes/
>
> Can anyone tell me which place the fonts _should_ be loading from?   Then
> I can work on finding an un-corrupted set of .ttf's and putting them in the
> correct location.
>
> I think Qt requests the fonts from OS X.  If you drag and drop those fonts
> into Apple’s Font Book application,  Font Book will validate the file and
> offer to add it.  I believe Myth will then be able to access it but you
> might have to log out and back in.
>
> Or not.  It has always been very murky how fonts work with Qt on OS X.
>
> Craig
>
>
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Craig,
Dragging the font .ttf files from the ~/.mythtv/.../Steppes/Fonts folder
onto the FontBook app "validated" them as fonts for the user and fixed the
problem.  Thanks very much for your help-

Steve
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