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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - Make fontconfig scanning faster"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766#c8">Comment # 8</a>
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title="NEW --- - Make fontconfig scanning faster"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766">bug 64766</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:freedesktop@behdad.org" title="Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop@behdad.org>"> <span class="fn">Behdad Esfahbod</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=64766#c7">comment #7</a>)
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<span class="quote">> > For memory fonts, is it really a big deal? Why do people query those anyway?
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> Yes, it's a big deal. There are many use cases for memory fonts, such as
> embedding fonts in Matroska (mkv) files, web-fonts, fonts embedded in
> documents, special application-specific fonts.</span >
Most those usecases don't need to pass the font to fontconfig at all. They
already have the font, they should just use it.</pre>
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