Because I'm on a headless server. I only need Qt on the server to generate PDFs. I don't really care what plugin I use, but there is no X server there, so I get that XLib connection error.
If there is a better plugin I'll use it, someone just suggested minimal, which worked for lines and stuff, just not text. > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 12:28 PM > From: "Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Interest] -platform -minimal does not render text > > On Tuesday 17 February 2015 18:06:29 Jason H wrote: > > Or more importantly, it is rendering characters as black boxes. > > > > To back up, I have a headless server (AWS AMI). It generates PDFs using > > QPdfWriter. > > > > When on my desktop (Mint 17.1) I can render reports just fine without > > "-platform minimal". Then to test the server command line on my desktop I > > add "-platform minimal" on the command line and that's where I have a > > problem. Anything non-text is fine, but text is rendered as uniform solid > > black squares. > > > > Thoughts? Do I need to install font? How do I troubleshoot this? > > Hi Jason > > Why are you using the minimal platform in the first place? It's meant for > learning how to make a new platform, not for actually using it in a system. > Are you writing a new platform? If so, please use the dev mailing list for > the > discussion. If not, what is the use you had that led you to minimal? > > If you want to continue using minimal, you'll have to fix the problem > yourself > and submit the patch. > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
