[tex-live] fc-cache documentation ?
Élie Roux
elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu
Mon Aug 29 12:57:48 CEST 2016
> Another issue is that (some?) fontconfig versions before 2.11 scan
> the user's font directory `~/.fonts' (or the equivalent directory of
> Windows) again and again: A cache entry gets created but it is
> immediately invalidated. If you have a large amount of fonts in
> that directory, fontconfig slows down considerably. Meanwhile,
> there's fix for this behaviour, so I recommend to upgrade to the
> latest fontconfig version 2.11.
Note also that fontconfig for Windows doesn't find fonts registered with
the registry, while other applications do, which can lead to some user
complains:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90813
Thank you,
--
Elie
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