On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:44:19 +0200 peter linnell <plinnell at scribus.info> dijo:
>> I was hoping to get just a list of duplicates so I could quickly go >> into the folder and delete them. Most of the duplicates are font >> files that are in /usr/share/fonts and duplicated in ~/.fonts. I am >> the only user of this computer, so I would just delete the duplicate >> files in ~/.fonts. >> >> It's not a critical thing. The duplicate font files don't seem to >> cause any problems (except maybe for Fontmatrix). I just like to >> keep things tidy. >Try fc-cache -fv as root, then restart the applications. This >refreshes fontconfig's font cache. > >Sometimes this can fix "duplicates" I had already tried fc-cache -fv after deleting the duplicates and it made no difference; Fontmatrix still insisted there were duplicates. However, what did finally resolve the problem with Fontmatrix was to delete its configuration folder ~/.Fontmatrix/. When I launched it again it finally found the fonts correctly. Just another of the countless bugs in Fontmatrix. It's a great program, but needs a lot of work.
