Mark Wieder wrote:
Having looked into this a bit previously, it's somewhat more involved
even than that. There a interlocking pieces among (at least) libskia,
libcairo, and libharfbuzz, all of which jostle each other to make sure
there is a complete list of fonts available in the native system. I
haven't yet seen a way to change this behavior without modifying the
third-party libraries themselves.
Are those libraries loaded from code, or from something in the make
file?
I believe the problem Richard is referring to (RG: correct me if I'm
wrong about this) is that on startup the engine (and this includes the
server engine) queries the system for the various places where fonts
might be stored, then iterates through the list of locations and makes
a list of all the available fonts on the computer *and* the alternates
for the fonts it might need for display. I also see the libraries
launched
again for every extension loaded by the system.
Wow. Even worse than I'd thought.
LC Server is such a wonderful tool, I feel it could provide a great way
to introduce other devs to chunk expressions and more. But after that
experience on a popular shared host that couldn't handle LC's resource
usage, I began to feel dismayed by the prospects.
If we can't find a solution in the engine, at least we have a workaround
with a custom font config file. But it's so many extra steps to set that
up it rather kills the joy of LC's simplicity.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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