PathText QML Type

Sets whether the font weight is bold.

Sets the capitalization for the text.

PathText { text: "Hello"; font.capitalization: Font.AllLowercase }

Sets the family name of the font.

The family name is case insensitive and may optionally include a foundry name, e.g. "Helvetica [Cronyx]". If the family is available from more than one foundry and the foundry isn't specified, an arbitrary foundry is chosen. If the family isn't available a family will be set using the font matching algorithm.

Applies integer values to specific OpenType features when shaping the text based on the contents in features. This provides advanced access to the font shaping process, and can be used to support font features that are otherwise not covered in the API.

The font features are represented by a map from four-letter tags to integer values. This integer value passed along with the tag in most cases represents a boolean value: A zero value means the feature is disabled, and a non-zero value means it is enabled. For certain font features, however, it may have other intepretations. For example, when applied to the salt feature, the value is an index that specifies the stylistic alternative to use.

For example, the frac font feature will convert diagonal fractions separated with a slash (such as 1/2) with a different representation. Typically this will involve baking the full fraction into a single character width (such as ½).

If a font supports the frac feature, then it can be enabled in the shaper as in the following code:

Text {
    text: "One divided by two is 1/2"
    font.family: "MyFractionFont"
    font.features: { "frac": 1 }
}

Multiple features can be assigned values in the same mapping. For instance, if we would like to also disable kerning for the font, we can explicitly disable this as follows:

Text {
    text: "One divided by two is 1/2"
    font.family: "MyFractionFont"
    font.features: { "frac": 1, "kern": 0 }
}

You can also collect the font properties in an object:

Text {
    text: "One divided by two is 1/2"
    font: {
        family: "MyFractionFont"
        features: { "frac": 1, "kern": 0 }
    }
}

This property was introduced in Qt 6.6.

See also QFont::setFeature().

Sets whether the font has an italic style.

Enables or disables the kerning OpenType feature when shaping the text. Disabling this may improve performance when creating or changing the text, at the expense of some cosmetic features. The default value is true.

PathText { text: "OATS FLAVOUR WAY"; font.kerning: false }

Sets the letter spacing for the font.

Letter spacing changes the default spacing between individual letters in the font. A positive value increases the letter spacing by the corresponding pixels; a negative value decreases the spacing.

Sets the font size in pixels.

Using this function makes the font device dependent. Use pointSize to set the size of the font in a device independent manner.

Sets the font size in points. The point size must be greater than zero.

Sometimes, a font will apply complex rules to a set of characters in order to display them correctly. In some writing systems, such as Brahmic scripts, this is required in order for the text to be legible, but in e.g. Latin script, it is merely a cosmetic feature. Setting the preferShaping property to false will disable all such features when they are not required, which will improve performance in most cases.

The default value is true.

PathText { text: "Some text"; font.preferShaping: false }

Sets whether the font has a strikeout style.

Sets the style name of the font.

The style name is case insensitive. If set, the font will be matched against style name instead of the font properties font.weight, font.bold and font.italic.

Sets whether the text is underlined.

Sets the font's weight.

The weight can be one of:

PathText { text: "Hello"; font.weight: Font.DemiBold }

Sets the word spacing for the font.

Word spacing changes the default spacing between individual words. A positive value increases the word spacing by a corresponding amount of pixels, while a negative value decreases the inter-word spacing accordingly.

The text for which this PathText should contain the outlines.

The horizontal position of the PathText's baseline.

The vertical position of the PathText's baseline.