Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Symes
Updated Netsurf to Yesterdays (1st April) version. The message reads "Scanning fonts-please wait" So how many hours does one wait while the machine is frozen literally, for this scan to finish. After a substantial amount of time at Times.New.Roman and 88% showing on the hourglass the only way I c

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Tony Moore
On 2 Apr 2009, Dave Symes wrote: > Updated Netsurf to Yesterdays (1st April) version. Running the same version here, no problem. > The message reads "Scanning fonts-please wait" So how many hours does > one wait while the machine is frozen literally, for this scan to > finish. > > After a subst

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Russell Hafter - Lists
In article , Tony Moore wrote: > Having scanned the fonts when it is first run, NetSurf > stores the result in !Scrap. Thus, to avoid font-scanning > at every start-up, !Scrap should not be kept in a RAMdisc. That does not seem to be the best place to store such info. Surely Scrap, by definition

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Symes
In article , Tony Moore wrote: > On 2 Apr 2009, Dave Symes wrote: > > Updated Netsurf to Yesterdays (1st April) version. > Running the same version here, no problem. > > The message reads "Scanning fonts-please wait" So how many hours does > > one wait while the machine is frozen literally,

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread John Williams
In article <5045d76fa5rh.li...@virgin.net>, Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: > That does not seem to be the best place to store such info. > Surely Scrap, by definition and name, is just for *very* > temporary stuff that is not needed over the long term. > I cannot be the only person who clears

Inaccessible history

2009-04-02 Thread Simon Smith
Despite the delay it introduces into NetSurf's loading time, I like having a very long site history. It's currently set to 365 days (and I would like to set it to even longer). But if I select 'show global history', the window only goes back three weeks. So it seems that I'm having to wait an inor

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Russell Hafter - Lists
In article <5045d943c8li...@picindex.info>, John Williams wrote: > In article <5045d76fa5rh.li...@virgin.net>, Russell >Hafter - Lists wrote: > > That does not seem to be the best place to store such > > info. Surely Scrap, by definition and name, is just for > > *very* temporary stuff that

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread John Williams
In article <5045db09b0rh.li...@virgin.net>, Russell Hafter - Lists wrote: > Can you say where to find it? > Google was no help at all. I found it in my Resources directory! But unfortunately nothing uses it. I'm sure Rob reads this list from time-to-time and will be able to tell you - but

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Tony Moore
On 2 Apr 2009, Dave Symes wrote: [snip] > As I mentioned, temporarily switching all my fonts off in EFP, then > running Netsurf, then switching the fonts back on sorted that bit 'o > constipation. You do that each time you start NetSurf, or did the problem not recur? Tony

Re: Inaccessible history

2009-04-02 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:52 +0100, Simon Smith wrote: > Despite the delay it introduces into NetSurf's loading time, I like having a > very long site history. It's currently set to 365 days (and I would like to > set it to even longer). But if I select 'show global history', the window > only goes

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:09 +0100, Dave Symes wrote: > Updated Netsurf to Yesterdays (1st April) version. > > The message reads "Scanning fonts-please wait" > So how many hours does one wait while the machine is frozen literally, for > this scan to finish. > > After a substantial amount of time a

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Symes
In article <984bdf4550.old_coas...@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>, Tony Moore wrote: > On 2 Apr 2009, Dave Symes wrote: > [snip] > > As I mentioned, temporarily switching all my fonts off in EFP, then > > running Netsurf, then switching the fonts back on sorted that bit 'o > > constipation. > You

Re: Font Scanning

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Symes
In article <1238716328.7159.17.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:09 +0100, Dave Symes wrote: > > Updated Netsurf to Yesterdays (1st April) version. > > The message reads "Scanning fonts-please wait" So how many hours does > > one wait while the machine is frozen li