Indeed. I remember having issues such as black blocks in place of actual text while the rest of the PDF was fine.
Anyhow, thanks for the datails. Bests, F. On 7 June 2016 at 15:57, Jason H <jh...@gmx.com> wrote: > Yea, so I didn't read the stack overflow but it said what I said, though I > take issue with "QPA won't work" assertion. QPA works just fine. I think > what lead them to that was some package issues they were having. FWIW, I > didn't have them. > > > > > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2016 at 9:52 AM > *From:* "Jason H" <jh...@gmx.com> > *To:* "Federico Buti" <fed.b...@gmail.com> > > *Cc:* "interest@qt-project.org" <Interest@qt-project.org> > *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Painting fonts without GUI > While true, that is not the complete truth. > > You can use a platform (-platform XXX) to specify an non-X server, and use > that for rendering. That's how I generated PDFs on a headless server. > "offscreen" is one, but there is a better one that escapes me at the > moment. > > > > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2016 at 7:48 AM > *From:* "Federico Buti" <fed.b...@gmail.com> > *To:* "Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal" <etienne.san...@m4x.org> > *Cc:* "interest@qt-project.org" <Interest@qt-project.org> > *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Painting fonts without GUI > Hi, > > you need a QGuiApplication for that. See e.g. this stackoverflow question > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26205461/qpainter-drawtext-sigsegv-segmentation-fault> > . > > Cheers, > F. > > > On 7 June 2016 at 11:04, Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal <etienne.san...@m4x.org > > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> When I try painting text over a QImage in a console only application with >> QPainter::drawText, the program crashes. >> >> Is there any way to enable font painting in a non GUI application? It >> should work without any X server, so in that case Qt should have a fallback >> font? This does not need to be pretty text. >> >> Thanks! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Interest mailing list >> Interest@qt-project.org >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >> > > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > >
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