In article <f74fa67954.andrew-...@waitrose.com>, Andrew Pinder <andrew.pin...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > In message <54797458f6bbai...@argonet.co.uk> > on 21 Dec 2014 Brian <bbai...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > NetSurf has very recently started scanning fonts during loading. This > > hasn't happened for ages. Is this a glitch, perhaps, or revised > > behaviour? > I think a relevant factor may be the number of fonts you have > installed. Quite a while ago I installed the EFF collection of fonts > on my Iyonix. Ever since then whenever !NetSurf loads it displays a > window showing progress on scanning fonts. It always appears to stick > briefly when scanning Swz.narrow and then completes I can't see > anything about that font to know why it takes longer to scan. When I > bought this ARMini I copied the fonts across and have always had the > same behaviour. > So, having read the other responses, I suspect that if you just have > the original fonts supplied installed then the scanning of them will > normally be so quick that you don't notice it. So maybe a recent > change slowed that down. Please read elsewhere in the thread. No recent changes have been made and in any event very few fonts have been installed originally, as a matter of principle, to avoid the kind of issues that you mention. Previous to the issue that I reported, following any initial scan, ages ago, when the scan window was clearly visible and quite slow, if there are subsequent scans then they are just so fast that no window is visible that I am aware of, just scrolling of the hourglass momentarily. So I have no explanation as to why scanning should become clearly visible of late and that is no longer so following a NetSurf update!?! Thanks for your comment anyway. Brian
