QSvgGenerator how to display medium weight font via SVG file?

[mireiner]

Hi there,

does anyone know a workaround of this QSvgGenerator Qt Bug?
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-55780 (Please vote this up)

I simply want to display a medium weight font (for example 'Roboto Medium' font) via SVG file. SVG font-weight=500 is the value for medium fonts.

Todays Browser recognize SVG font-weight values that are full hundreds: 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900.
(For example 400=Normal, 500=Medium, 700=Bold etc.)

Unfortunately QSvgGenerator converts QFont::Weight (0-99) values just by multiplying them by ten to get the resulting SVG font-weight values (100-900).

Only the QFont::Weight constants: QFont::Light, QFont::Normal and QFont::Bold are not done this way. They are converted to valid values of full hundreds. For example QFont::Normal (QFont::Weight=50) is converted to SVG font-weight=400 (Normal).

The problem is:
QSvgGenerator converts QFont::Medium constant (Font::Weight=57) to SVG font-weight=570, which is a non valid SVG font-weight value.
QSvgGeberator converts QFont::Weight=50 set by number to SVG font-weight=400 (Normal).

The latter happens because QSvgGenerator converts the QFont::Normal constant (QFont::Weight=50) to SVG font-weight=400 (see example above).

Is there any working solution to force QSvgGenerator to set the SVG property font-weight=500 for a medium font?

[SGaist]

Hi,

Did you saw the "inline" patch proposed by the original poster ? Apply it to the QtSvg module and build it. You don't need to build the whole of Qt, just that module.

[mireiner]

@SGaist
Yes I saw the patch.

Today I tried to build just the svg module. Never build any Qt module from source before. But although the svg module is a small package I wasn't able to build the Qt5Svg.dll which is needed for Windows. I did not setup any extra things like paths or so for the build process. Could this be the problem?

There are more than one *.pro file in the package.

Building qtsvg.pro in the 'qtsvg' base directory I got error messages just by opening the project file: 'Project MESSAGE: cmake executable not found. Not running CMake unit tests'.

Building svg.pro in 'qtsvg/src' went fine. All *.obj files were sucessfully build but no Qt5Svg.dll which is needed for Windows.

Do you know what the problem might be?

[SGaist]

qtsvg.pro is the right to open. That just a warning that you can safely ignore.

[mireiner]

@SGaist
It worked, thank you very much!!

Build option: Shadow-Build was the problem. By default it is turned on. After deactivation of Shadow-Build the Qt5Svg.dll build just fine.

[SGaist]

Great !

Happy coding :)