Re: DUH, was: KDE 3.1, sid - TT fonts screwup
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> There was a bug in libfreetype which caused it to screw up reading .gz files.
> Its fixed in the cvs, not sure if its been fixed in debian. fc-cache uses
> libfreetype to get the characteristics out of each font. I think one of the
> problems was that it misread the header and sometimes expected a zero
> terminated string which wasn't necessarily there.
>
Hmm, maybe. With the latest version of fontconfig in sid, I think
memory usage of fc-cache maxed at about 250 MB rather than the
previous 500 MB. Still pretty bad, but not quite as disastrous to my
system.
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Robert J. Budzyński
Computer Center, Dept. of Physics, Warsaw University, Poland
<Robert.Budzynski@fuw.edu.pl>
http://bobo.fuw.edu.pl/~rjb/
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