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  • From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
  • To: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] X, XFT and a load of fonts
  • Date: 27 Aug 2002 14:23:56 -0600

Folks,

Nevermind thie thread. It's not realy Sorcemage specific and I just
discovered an Xfre chatroom.

Bearcat M. Sandor (bearcat in chat)

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:13, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a situation where I will need a lot of fonts loaded on my system.
> I have a directory with all the font files that I'd like to make
> available to X/Gnome. There are 3000 or so in there.
>
> I know that if I load them all into my font dir, create fonts.dir and
> fonts.scale, and then run 'xset fp rehash' I will get errors and X might
> hang when I boot it up next.
>
>
> My questions are thus:
>
> 1. Is there a way to tell which fonts won't work with out having to do
> 3000 font installations and tests? Is there some kind of font tester
> out there? Is there a font installer that will skip the bad ones but
> do it in batches?
>
> 2. If I can't get them all loaded, is there a way to view them without
> actually installing them (probably not).
>
> 3. I enabled anti-aliasing in gnome2 by way of the 'export
> GDK_USE_XFT=1'. Now there is a font that appears for X, but not for
> Gnome2, anf it did, b4 I set that. Why? The path to that font is in
> /etc/XftConfig. Also, since enabling xft in gnome, apps are loading 2-3
> times faster. is that normal?
>
> 4. Would having so many fonts installed slowdown X.Gnome? I know that
> having too many fonts in Windows is possible. Is it in X/Gnome?
>
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Bearcat
>
>
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