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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 105102] Font installation is incredibly slow
From:       Craig Drummond <craig () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-05-09 12:07:15
Message-ID: 20050509120715.17570.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From craig kde org  2005-05-09 14:07 -------
Do you have "pf2afm" installed - try "which pf2afm" If so, for a font named \
"wibble.pfb" (with a "wibble.pfm" in the same folder), does "pf2afm wibble" create an \
AFM file?

Can you send me, or (preferably) make available via ftp, an example of one of your \
fonts where the AFM creation is not working? (Or link the files to this bug report)

As to things slowing down - that is probably true. As I said before, for every 20 \
fonts installed, fc-cache is re-run, and X and Ghostscript reconfigured. So, the more \
fonts you have installed, the more data that needs to be regenerated. For configuring \
regular X, a file called fonts.dir has to be created. This lists each font file, in a \
folder, and the encodings it supports. So every time you add a font to a folder, that \
file is re-created (I do read in the previous contents, so only the new font will \
need to be examined - but still things will slow down). A similar situation occurs \
for Ghostscript.


[ Plus it was the moving PFMs that you should do, not PFBs! ]


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