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Re: help getting GNUStep running on Debian
From: |
Jeff Teunissen |
Subject: |
Re: help getting GNUStep running on Debian |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:23:49 -0500 |
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
[snip]
> I have not tried this yet. However your answer concerns me. Why does
> GNUStep feel it needs to load up all of my fonts? I have lots of fonts
> installed because I occasionally need to test how Japanese looks or 100
> dpi v. 75 dpi. It seems silly to me to load up each font in my font list
> when the average user will only use around 5 fonts.
GNUstep uses a font cache, which maps XLFDs to a form which an OpenStep
program will understand (to be specific, AFM). Doing the mapping every time a
font is needed is very slow. :)
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