On Thu, 28 May 2009 19:44:31 +0100 Steve Fryatt <li...@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> > Maybe font canning could be filtered? And also, once the fonts have > > been canned where is the data cached? Is it wasting space somewhere > > y retaining font data for fonts that will probably never be used? > > It's stored in !Scrap (in a file called RUfl_cache). On this > machine, with a few fonts installed, it takes up 277K. I think > that's a reasonable price to pay for improved text display. And is another reason why people shouldn't keep !Scrap in a RAM disc, which is sadly a common misconceived practise (certainly on Iyonixes!) I did specify a !Caches to go along with !Scrap at one point; and a developer (whose name is clouded in an evening of real ale) has taken the idea on; but I don't believe anything actually uses it. B.
