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| Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 10:19:50 |
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The fonts just don’t look right in the Gray OSD
theme. The letters overlap each other a little and generally look sloppy. It’s
like they are either sized too big or the wrong font is being used. ; I have
verified that I have installed the mscorefonts. So now what do I do? Should I
re-download the themes and reinstall them? ; Any suggestions?
Darryl
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 10:46:57 |
Darryl Hirschler wrote:
> The fonts just don’t look right in the Gray OSD theme.
The letters
> overlap each other a little and generally look sloppy.
It’s like they
> are either sized too big or the wrong font is being
used. I have
> verified that I have installed the mscorefonts. So now
what do I do?
> Should I re-download the themes and reinstall them?
Any suggestions?
The Gray-OSD theme comes with DejaVuSans fonts. (Look in the
directory
that contains the theme.) Make sure these are intalled.
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
 
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2008-03-28 11:05:34 |
On 03/28/2008 11:19 AM, Darryl Hirschler wrote:
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> The fonts just don’t look right in the Gray OSD
theme. The letters
> overlap each other a little and generally look sloppy.
It’s like they
> are either sized too big or the wrong font is being
used. I have
> verified that I have installed the mscorefonts. So now
what do I do?
> Should I re-download the themes and reinstall them?
Any suggestions?
>
What version of Myth? Output of mythfrontend --version is
most helpful.
Mike
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 12:03:56 |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brad DerManouel ian < mythdermanouelian.com">mythdermanouelian.com>; wrote:
The Gray-OSD theme comes with DejaVuSans fonts. (Look in the directory
that contains the theme.) Make sure these are intalled.
OK, how does one install them?
I tried adding /usr/share/mythtv/themes to /etc/fonts/local.conf
I can do fc-list | grep -i deja and it shows
DejaVu Sans:style=Oblique
DejaVu Sans:style=Bold
DejaVu Sans:style=Book
However, if I do xlsfonts | grep -i deja I get nothing.
I tried adding /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD to the FontPath in xorg.conf but it gives an error about no fonts.dir file.
How do you install fonts?
btw I am using gentoo, mythfrontend --version gives ...
Please include all output in bug reports.
MythTV Version : 16658
MythTV Branch : branches/release-0-21-fixes
Library API ; : 0.21.20080304-1
Network Protocol : 40
Options compiled in:
linux profile using_oss using_alsa using_backend using_frontend using_lirc using_opengl_vsync using_opengl_video using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_xvmc using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 12:10:05 |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Michael T. Dean < mtdean thirdconta ct.com">mtdeanthirdcontact.com> wrote:
On 03/28/2008 01:03 PM, James Orr wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> The Gray-OSD theme comes with DejaVuSans fonts. (Look in the directory
>> that contains the theme.) Make sure these are intalled.
> OK, how does one install them?
They just have to be in the directory. Just make sure they're there.
They are in the directory.
Assuming "the directory" is /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD.
frontend Gray-OSD # ls -l *.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119584 Mar 20 02:53 DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122496 Mar 20 02:53 DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135900 Mar 20 02:53 DejaVuSans.ttf
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 13:14:20 |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Michael T. Dean < mtdean thirdconta ct.com">mtdeanthirdcontact.com> wrote:
On 03/28/2008 01:10 PM, James Orr wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 03/28/2008 01:03 PM, James Orr wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
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>>>> The Gray-OSD theme comes with DejaVuSans fonts. (Look in the directory
>>>> that contains the theme.) Make sure these are intalled.
>>>>
>>> OK, how does one install them?
>>>
>> They just have to be in the directory. Just make sure they're there.
> They are in the directory.
>
> Assuming "the directory" is /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD.
Yep. Should have said that outright. Sorry.
But, that means it's installed right. So you're probably being bitten
by a known (but unidentified) issue (that's either an issue with your
configuration, your system libraries, your video drivers, or the font
itself--we still haven't identified it, but it doesn't seem to be a bug
in Myth).
See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/295279#295279 and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294597#294597 (the
link referenced within the previous link).
If you give me a link to a picture of the screen, I can tell you for
sure whether that's the problem. Or, you can follow the instructions in
the above posts and, if it fixes the symptom (ugly OSD fonts), it was
the problem.
One point is that I'm just using 4:3 SD, not 16:9 HD as mentioned in those posts.
I did comment out the fonts from osd.xml, and of course it works fine with the default fonts.
I then went to try your experiment of copying the font files to ~/.mythtv and changing the OSD font, however the fonts I copied do not show in the list, only FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf and FreeMono.ttf.
I did get screenshots of what it looks like (with the unmodified osd.xml of course) ...
http://www.orrwhat.net/screen1.png
http://www.orrwhat.net/screen2.png
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
 
Canada |
2008-03-28 13:31:51 |
> I did get screenshots of what it looks like (with the
unmodified osd.xml of
> course) ...
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> http://www.orrwhat
.net/screen1.png
> http://www.orrwhat
.net/screen2.png
Wow, that's nasty!
What X resolution are you running?
What QT version?
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 13:38:40 |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Greg Estabrooks < gregphaze.org">gregphaze.org> wrote:
Wow, that's nasty!
What X resolution are you running?
What QT version?
X resolution is 800x600
QT version is 3.3.8
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 13:47:49 |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Michael T. Dean < mtdean thirdconta ct.com">mtdeanthirdcontact.com> wrote:
Oh, yeah. And I still would like to know Myth version (all output from
mythfrontend --version).
I posted earlier, but here it is again ...
Please include all output in bug reports.
MythTV Version : 16658
MythTV Branch : branches/release-0-21-fixes
Library API ; : 0.21.20080304-1
Network Protocol : 40
Options compiled in:
linux profile using_oss using_alsa using_backend using_frontend using_lirc using_opengl_vsync using_opengl_video using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_xvmc using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads
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| Re: Gray OSD fonts |
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2008-03-28 15:11:41 |
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Thanks for those screenshots. Also check
out the ‘2’ character. Something is wrong with it. Mine looks the
same as your screen caps. ; Itallic lowercase ‘L’ looks like it’s
having problems too.
Darryl
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:14
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To: Discussion
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Gray
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Michael T. Dean <thirdcontact.com">mtdeanthirdcontact.com> wrote:
On 03/28/2008 01:10 PM, James Orr wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 03/28/2008 01:03 PM, James Orr wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Gray-OSD theme comes with DejaVuSans fonts. (Look in the
directory
>>>>; that contains the theme.) Make sure these are intalled.
>>>>
>>> OK, how does one install them?
>>>
>> They just have to be in the directory. Just make sure they're
there.
>; They are in the directory.
>
> Assuming "the directory" is /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD.
Yep. Should have said that outright. Sorry.
But, that means it's installed right. So you're probably being bitten
by a known (but unidentified) issue (that's either an issue with your
configuration, your system libraries, your video drivers, or the font
itself--we still haven't identified it, but it doesn't seem to be a bug
in Myth).
See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/295279#295279
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294597#294597
(the
link referenced within the previous link).
If you give me a link to a picture of the screen, I can tell you for
sure whether that's the problem. Or, you can follow the instructions in
the above posts and, if it fixes the symptom (ugly OSD fonts), it was
the problem.
One point is that I'm just using 4:3 SD, not 16:9 HD as mentioned in those posts.
I did comment out the fonts from osd.xml, and of course it works fine with the
default fonts.
I then went to try your experiment of copying the font files to ~/.mythtv and
changing the OSD font, however the fonts I copied do not show in the list, only
FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf and FreeMono.ttf.
I did get screenshots of what it looks like (with the unmodified osd.xml of
course) ...
http://www.orrwhat.net/screen1.png
http://www.orrwhat.net/screen2.png
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