Hi!

I have an app developed with Qt 4.8 compiled for both Embedded Linux Arm as well as Linux Ubuntu. It uses a specific set of fonts which I need to have installed for it to run, something I do with QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont. Everything works fine when I compile for Embedded Linux, but when I do it for Linux Ubuntu, I got -1 and the fonts are not loaded.

I tried to find on the web a solution for the problem but I found no help. Similar problems were solved by updating Qt 4.6 to 4.7 (nothing of use) or by installing fontconfig, which I already have. Also I couldn't find anything useful in Qt Assistant and checked the paths to the .ttf files.

Any help will be appreciated.

Here is the code I'm using:

Qt Code: 
  1. QFontDatabase::removeAllApplicationFonts();
  2.  
  3.     QDir fontDir(DEFAULT_FONTS_PATH);
  4.     QStringList fontFileList = fontDir.entryList(QStringList("*.ttf"), QDir::Files | QDir::NoDotDot | QDir::NoDot);
  5.  
  6.     mDebugS(QString("Found %1 fonts on folder theme/fonts").arg(fontFileList.size()));
  7.  
  8.     //
  9.     qint32 fontId;
  10.  
  11.     foreach (const QString& filename, fontFileList)
  12.     {
  13.         fontId = QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont(DEFAULT_FONTS_PATH "/" + filename);
  14.  
  15.         if (Q_UNLIKELY(fontId == -1))
  16.         {
  17.             const QString strTemp = QString("Unable to install font %1").arg(filename);
  18.  
  19.             mLog(strTemp);
  20.             mDebugS(strTemp);
  21.         }
  22.         else
  23.             applicationFontsIdList.append(fontId);
  24.     }
  25.  
  26.     mDebugS(QString::number(applicationFontsIdList.size()) + " fonts are installed");
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