In message <1246791238.32517.99.ca...@duiker> you wrote: > On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 13:57 +0100, Chris Manning wrote: >> In message <4d8668feccea4ec15c9a84c30e157ad0de1f2...@localhost> >> Mike Hobbs <mike.ho...@antplc.com> wrote: >> [snipped] > Please email me the full log file and your !Fonts directory, zipped. > > > John.
Thanks to John-Mark my problem was fixed (for a while) by making sure I had the latest FontManager. However, I unexpectedly had the problem return and the reason was that I had changed some fonts by synchronizing between my laptop and desktop machines. I mention this here because, as I think others have also pointed out, the mechanism for font scanning probably needs reviewing. It seems that seemingly minor changes to a machine's font library can at best cause NetSurf to spend ages scanning fonts before it starts, or at worst it can crash because the RUfl_cache says it has fonts which have now gone. And all this trouble seems to be over fonts which NetSurf is never likely to use. Sometimes I switch the contents of my font library to avoid having an excessive number of fonts but to load some special fonts for a graphic design job. This can play havoc with NetSurf, yet I'm sure many people do this kind of font swapping. Mike
