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Screen font not legible in latest version

PK
Peter Knief
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 2:31 PM

Hi,

I couldn't find a solution to my problem, perhaps the community can help:

after update to the latest version of Openscad on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I can not
read or even identify anything in the editing dialogue.

Currently I'm running 2014.29 now and all is fine, any later version and it
all looks like Thai writing.

Please: perhaps you know how to adjust the screen font or how to sort the
problem itself ?

Cheers
Peter

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Hi, I couldn't find a solution to my problem, perhaps the community can help: after update to the latest version of Openscad on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I can not read or even identify anything in the editing dialogue. Currently I'm running 2014.29 now and all is fine, any later version and it all looks like Thai writing. Please: perhaps you know how to adjust the screen font or how to sort the problem itself ? Cheers Peter -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Screen-font-not-legible-in-latest-version-tp13795.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
TP
Torsten Paul
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 8:13 PM

On 09/13/2015 04:31 PM, Peter Knief wrote:

Currently I'm running 2014.29 now and all is fine, any later version and it
all looks like Thai writing.

That's strange, I think the font selection of Qt is also using the
fontconfig library which tries to provide a system wide configuration
for fonts. Maybe there's an issue with the font cache.

You could try editing the configuration file directly. It's stored
at $HOME/.config/OpenSCAD/OpenSCAD.conf

Changing/Adding the fontfamily line in the editor section:

-snip---------------------------------------------
[editor]
fontfamily=Liberation Mono
-snap---------------------------------------------

If that font is not available, the command fc-list should give
a list of all known fonts like:

/.../LiberationMono-Regular.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Regular

Note that Ubuntu 14.04 has a broken version number, it claims
to be 2014.01.29 but is in reality 2013.01.

ciao,
Torsten.

On 09/13/2015 04:31 PM, Peter Knief wrote: > Currently I'm running 2014.29 now and all is fine, any later version and it > all looks like Thai writing. > That's strange, I think the font selection of Qt is also using the fontconfig library which tries to provide a system wide configuration for fonts. Maybe there's an issue with the font cache. You could try editing the configuration file directly. It's stored at $HOME/.config/OpenSCAD/OpenSCAD.conf Changing/Adding the fontfamily line in the editor section: -snip--------------------------------------------- [editor] fontfamily=Liberation Mono -snap--------------------------------------------- If that font is not available, the command fc-list should give a list of all known fonts like: /.../LiberationMono-Regular.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Regular Note that Ubuntu 14.04 has a broken version number, it claims to be 2014.01.29 but is in reality 2013.01. ciao, Torsten.
PK
Peter Knief
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 11:02 PM

Dear Torsten,

Great that helped, thank you very much.

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Dear Torsten, Great that helped, thank you very much. -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Screen-font-not-legible-in-latest-version-tp13795p13853.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.