On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 12:47 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:03 +0100, Mike Hobbs wrote:
> > I mention this here because, as I think others have also pointed > > out, the mechanism for font scanning probably needs reviewing. > > It seems that seemingly minor changes to a machine's font library > > can at best cause NetSurf to spend ages scanning fonts before it > > starts, or at worst it can crash because the RUfl_cache says it > > has fonts which have now gone. > > There are 2 kinds of scan: full and partial. Further to this, RUfl scans fonts about 7 times faster when the Unicode Font Manager is in use. The bad news is that it requires a new version of the Unicode Font Manager so NetSurf won't be using this version of RUfl for quite some time. John.
