Using CacheFont
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CacheFont is installed simply by entering its command from the command
line. It will print a message telling you that it has installed itself, and
from then on all your font requesters will be running through the patch.
If you wish to uninstall the patch, simply execute the command again and it
will remove itself.
The best way to install CacheFont is by including it in your
startup-sequence or user-startup. This way, the patch will be initialised
every time your system is booted.
You do not need to 'run' the program as it returns control to your command
line immediately.
Using MakeFontList
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MakeFontList must be run in order for the CacheFont to function. It scans
your Fonts: directory and stores the information needed by CacheFont in a
directory (which will be created if necessary) called Fonts:CacheFontData/.
If CacheFont has any difficulty reading these data files, it will display a
requester asking you to run MakeFontList, and continue by using the
original (slow) unpatched routine.
You will need to run MakeFontList every time you make a change to your
Fonts: directory. Don't include this command in your startup-sequence
though! Call it manually whenever you need to.
And how much disk space is wasted by the caching information files? Well I
have 55 fonts installed at the moment, and the cache files come out to a
whopping great 1581 bytes, hardly a great sacrifice. :)
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