Re: help getting GNUStep running on Debian

[Jeff Teunissen]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

[snip]

> I have not tried this yet.  However your answer concerns me.  Why does
> GNUStep feel it needs to load up all of my fonts?  I have lots of fonts
> installed because I occasionally need to test how Japanese looks or 100
> dpi v. 75 dpi. It seems silly to me to load up each font in my font list
> when the average user will only use around 5 fonts.

GNUstep uses a font cache, which maps XLFDs to a form which an OpenStep
program will understand (to be specific, AFM). Doing the mapping every time a
font is needed is very slow. :)

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