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- Short: Disk cache of available fonts, faster reqs
- Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
- Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
- Type: text/font
- Version: 1.4
-
- This is a patch to the 39.3 (3.1) version of the diskfont.library. It adds a
- disk caching mechanism to the library which keeps the list of available
- fonts. If you have a huge number of fonts (I have approx. 300!), the creation
- of the (first, usually uncached) font requester gets much faster: Reading the
- cache takes usually not more than two seconds, parsing the directory tree
- however used to take half a minute on my system.
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- New in 1.4:
-
- - Fixed another problem with multiassigns. It was not correctly checked
- whether the cache is really up to date for all directories in a possible
- multiassign.
-
- - Due to code rearrangement, lesser calls to AvailFonts() will suffer now.
- This might help to fix some strange AMOS font functions. Check the guide for
- details! Thans to Nils Görs for the hint.
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-
- New in 1.3:
-
- - Fixed a long standing problem with assign-added font directories which are
- now respected by the cache. Thanks to Dirk Neubauer for the hints.
-
- - Fixed a bug in the 1.2 code that wrote invalid caches from time to time.
-
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-
-
- New in 1.2:
-
- - Fixed a conflict with BetterOpenLibs. The FontCache is now much more
- system conformal, ROM fonts or scaled fonts do not longer enter the
- cache list.
-
- - The font cache is again a bit smaller, and fewer cache files are
- needed.
-
-
- So long,
-
- Thomas (April 1998)
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