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catinsnow

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More options Apr 19 2008, 10:55 am

From: catinsnow

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:55:49 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sat, Apr 19 2008 10:55 am

Subject: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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the key is,use the qt4 libs of your system replace the GE4.3 shipped.
I'm a Ubuntu Hardy user, these steps resolved all the boot speed and
fonts encoding and display issues for me.

sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support libqt4-
sql
cd /opt/google-earth # my GE install directory
sudo mkdir libbak
sudo mv libQt* libbak
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4 ./
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 ./
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 ./
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 ./
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4 ./
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 ./

start google earth,the text render then same to other qt4 programs in
my system.
hope these could help other guys in the trouble.

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Santana

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More options Apr 19 2008, 4:25 pm

From: Santana

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:25:48 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sat, Apr 19 2008 4:25 pm

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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I am using Slackware 11 with Qt3 libs.

The antialiasing problem is caused by libQtGui.so.4!

I have installed Qt4 libs and then I have replaced /opt/googleearth/
libQtGui.so.4 with /opt/qt4/lib/libQtGui.so.4; GE 4.3 starts with GUI
fonts perfectly antialiased but crashes immediatly!

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catinsnow

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More options Apr 20 2008, 9:22 am

From: catinsnow

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:22:14 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Apr 20 2008 9:22 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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may be you should try to replace all the qt4 libs. libQtGui.so.4
should be same version completely with other Qt4 libs.

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More options Apr 20 2008, 8:07 pm

From: Santana

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:07:49 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Apr 20 2008 8:07 pm

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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Perhaps, your workaround requires Qt4 installed in /usr/lib; many
Linux distros are still based on Qt3 and, in that case, you cannot
install Qt4 in /usr/lib.

For example, Qt4 package for Slackware 12 installs Qt4 in /opt because
Slackware 12 has Qt3 installed in /usr/lib.

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More options Apr 20 2008, 8:44 pm

From: wenzhuo

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:44:15 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Apr 20 2008 8:44 pm

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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I am a Ubuntu Hardy user as well. Your workaround does not work for
me. The only
difference between your setup and mine is that GE4.3 is installed in
my home directory.

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rkwells

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More options Apr 21 2008, 2:10 pm

From: rkwells

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:10:35 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Apr 21 2008 2:10 pm

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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when I do this I get:
./googleearth-bin: symbol lookup error: ./libcommon.so: undefined
symbol: _ZN6QLabel13keyPressEventEP9QKeyEvent

My Qt version is 4.1.4

roger wells

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amilcar

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More options Apr 28 2008, 6:16 pm

From: amilcar

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:16:30 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 6:16 pm

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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The workaround will only work if you install googlearth in the system
folders (as root)

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More options Apr 29 2008, 9:50 am

From: fc8usr

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:50:20 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Apr 29 2008 9:50 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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Thanks. Worked perfectly for me on Fedora 8, antialiased font
rendering now functional:

su
yum install qt4 qt4-X11
cd /usr/local/google-earth
mkdir libbak
mv libQt* libbak
ln -s /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4

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More options Apr 29 2008, 11:16 am

From: fc8usr

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:16:38 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Apr 29 2008 11:16 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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Wait, not so perfect. 'Panoramio' placemarks do not display images
when using system qt4 libs. Bah!

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More options Apr 29 2008, 11:25 am

From: fc8usr

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:25:13 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Apr 29 2008 11:25 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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Actually, none of the 'browser' windows render images with this
otherwise great workaround using system qt4 libs to improve
performance and render fonts correctly.

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Santana

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More options May 1 2008, 11:59 am

From: Santana

Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:59:37 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, May 1 2008 11:59 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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The antialiasing problem was my mistake!

On Slackware 12, GE 4.3 searches for font paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and, in that file, I forgot to specify the line:

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"

Now antialiasing is working (without the workaround proposed by
catinsnow) and GE 4.3 can see my true type fonts!

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I Baker

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More options May 12 2008, 7:34 am

From: I Baker

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 04:34:55 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, May 12 2008 7:34 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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I'm using Mandriva Powerpack 2008, GE4.3 installed from package
manager (directories may be different if installed with the installer
from google.) I've ammended fc8usr's script thus:

(naturally, you'll need qt4 first.)

su
cd /usr/lib/googleearth
mkdir libbak
mv libQt* libbak
ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQt3Support.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtCore.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtGui.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtSql.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtXml.so.4

Seems to be working fine and also starting up a hell of a lot quicker
(famous last words!) Thanks for this everyone, I had a choice between
GE4.3 working properly and looking ugly or GE4.2 looking OK and not
quite working.

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I Baker

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More options May 12 2008, 8:08 am

From: I Baker

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 05:08:09 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, May 12 2008 8:08 am

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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Hmmmmmm, spoke too soon. Getting the same problem with 'Panoramio' and
other placemarks not showing most images (the 'Panoramio' logo is
presumably an image and that's showing up, but not the picture for the
placemark.) I also noticed that the placemark pop up is giving an item
in the task bar named Googleearth-bin, which I don't think it did
before.

Think I've reached the limit of my hacking skills, any more thoughts
anyone?

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rkwells

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More options May 16 2008, 1:31 pm

From: rkwells

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:31:17 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Fri, May 16 2008 1:31 pm

Subject: Re: workaround for GE4.3 text display issue

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What version/release of Qt4 are you using? My version (4.1.4) seems
to be the same as that supplied with googleearth at least the byte
size of each file is exactly the same. Needless to say the problem
with labels persists.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2323988 May 13 12:13 libQt3Support.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1823904 May 13 12:13 libQtCore.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6486672 May 13 12:13 libQtGui.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541908 May 13 12:13 libQtNetwork.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 165176 May 13 12:13 libQtSql.so.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 322248 May 13 12:13 libQtXml.so.4

Any help with this problem will be appreciated.
Roger Wells

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