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- From: "Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [SM-Discuss] X, XFT and a load of fonts
- Date: 26 Aug 2002 23:13:56 -0600
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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[SM-Discuss] SML Unoffical site,
Thomas Graham, 08/26/2002
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[SM-Discuss] X, XFT and a load of fonts,
Bearcat M. Sandor, 08/27/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] X, XFT and a load of fonts, Bearcat M. Sandor, 08/27/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] SML Unoffical site, Adam Clark, 08/27/2002
- Re: [SM-Discuss] SML Unoffical site, Peter Schneider-Kamp, 08/27/2002
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[SM-Discuss] X, XFT and a load of fonts,
Bearcat M. Sandor, 08/27/2002
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