Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Nicolás Hatcher
Hi All (again): It seems I was guessing too much. Perhaps my problem is not fc-cache. What happens is that with any new day the first xelatex run is extremely slow. Could be 5 minutes before pass the line This is XeTeX, Version ... I am doing a system that produces pdf documents on demand from a w

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Nicolás Hatcher wrote: > Hi All (again): > > It seems I was guessing too much. Perhaps my problem is not fc-cache. > What happens is that with any new day the first xelatex run is extremely slow. > Could be 5 minutes before pass the line > This is XeTeX, Version ... > I am doing a system that pr

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Nicolas, Normally, XeTeX does not take that long to start up or run! It would seem to me that your system and web-server is set-up wrong. There are other possibilities for the problems you are experiencing. Either way, I believe you problem has nothing to do with XeTeX. Sorry. regards

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 10 Aug 2011, at 09:03, Nicolás Hatcher wrote: > Hi All (again): > > It seems I was guessing too much. Perhaps my problem is not fc-cache. > What happens is that with any new day the first xelatex run is extremely slow. > Could be 5 minutes before pass the line > This is XeTeX, Version ... > I

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Nicolás Hatcher
Hi and thank you all for your quick and useful answers. I am kind of new to XeTeX but I have been using LaTeX on a daily basis for the last 15 years. The problem is with XeTeX, because for testing purposes I run XeTeX alone. I will keep an eye on what fontconfig is doing, I did not realise it wa

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread John Was
Hello It's not an intellectually satisfying solution, but could you not yourself be the first (dummy) customer each day, offering up a file for PDF conversion so that the initial slow processing happens only to you? The real clients who come after that will then (if I understand your problem

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.08.2011 um 10:28 schrieb John Was: > It's not an intellectually satisfying solution, but could you not yourself be > the first (dummy) customer each day, offering up a file for PDF conversion so > that the initial slow processing happens only to you? It should be easier, and more efficie