[OS X TeX] fonts in leopard

[Philipp Mathey]

Hi,

could someone answer the following questions ?
1) what are font caches ?
2) where precisely are they located in Leopard ?
3) what happens if one removes them ? (the entire folder)
4) what happens when one removes some or all items within the cache  
folder but does not remove the folder itself ?
5) how should one 'empty' the font caches ?
6) when one logs out, does that affect the font caches  ?

Thanks,
Philipp
On 2-Nov-07, at 11:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
>
>>> I would also delete your font caches
>>
>> Cha-ching!  It dawned on me right after I wrote my original msg  
>> that an errant cache might be the source of the problem.  Not being  
>> sure where in ~/Library/Caches the font caches were I just  
>> clobbered (actually, moved) the entire directory (and created a new  
>> empty Caches dir) and that did the trick.
>
> It's probably worth noting that font caches are no longer located  
> in /Library/Caches in Leopard.  They appear to be created under /var/ 
> folders.
>
> -- 
> adam
>
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