[Scribus] Linux's font system

[Jan Kandziora]

Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 19:46 schrieb wtb41:
> My "installation"
> of the 4 fonts included no building of a cache. Scribus my have built a
> cache, but that is not part of the installation process; it is something
> that happens after installation (as part of the loading process).
>
You talk about *4* fonts. In a usual system, you have about 400 and more at 
hand. It's no fun to build the font metrics for that many fonts any time X is 
started. That's why there is a disk cache which is updated only on font 
installation.

Kind regards

	Jan
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