[vlc-commits] libass decoder: use Helvetica-Neue instead of Arial as default font on Apple platforms

Felix Paul Kühne git at videolan.org
Thu Dec 3 16:00:18 CET 2015


vlc | branch: master | Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne at videolan.org> | Thu Dec  3 14:33:01 2015 +0100| [138e353459ee2456c2311edb9bc79f5ee6bac48f] | committer: Felix Paul Kühne

libass decoder: use Helvetica-Neue instead of Arial as default font on Apple platforms

Arial is not available on anything but OS X

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=138e353459ee2456c2311edb9bc79f5ee6bac48f
---

 modules/codec/libass.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/modules/codec/libass.c b/modules/codec/libass.c
index 3d08717..9c6a80c 100644
--- a/modules/codec/libass.c
+++ b/modules/codec/libass.c
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ static int Create( vlc_object_t *p_this )
 #if defined( __ANDROID__ )
     const char *psz_font = "/system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf";
     const char *psz_family = "Droid Sans Bold";
+#elif defined( __APPLE__ )
+    const char *psz_font = NULL; /* We don't ship a default font with VLC */
+    const char *psz_family = "Helvetica Neue"; /* Use HN if we can't find anything more suitable - Arial is not on all Apple platforms */
 #else
     const char *psz_font = NULL; /* We don't ship a default font with VLC */
     const char *psz_family = "Arial"; /* Use Arial if we can't find anything more suitable */



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