Stefan Dirsch
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:53:09AM +0200, Thomas Piekenbrock wrote:
Hello,
I noticed that my OOo always hangs for a while when I want to select a font from the tool bar's scroll list. It seems to take a very long time to read the information from the Asian fonts (several Unicode, Japanese and Chinese ttf). Is does not only happen when I go through the list the first time, but also when I do a second or third font selection. Is there any method to make it faster? I am using OOo 1.0 and SuSE 8.0. My RAM is 500 MByte.
Most probably this is related to this issue:
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/xfs.html [...] As the X server is not multi-threaded, it appears to hang while it renders fonts. This is especially noticeable when large fonts, e.g. Asian fonts are rendered. During that time you can't do anything and having to wait several minutes until all the fonts in a Asian web page are rendered can be extremely annoying. [...]
I don't think this is related, the above hint is only for fonts
rendered via the X11 core font mechanism.
Apparently OpenOffice doesn't use that, the font names in the scroll
list in the tool bar are anti-aliased, which proves that X11 core
fonts are not used. OpenOffice probably uses freetype2 directly to
render fonts.
In that case the above hint won't help.
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Mike Fabian