[Fontconfig] Can I cache only particular fonts from WINDOWSFONTDIR

[Radoslav Stoyanov]

Hi Akira,

Thanks for this timely response. For example I would like to cache only Segoe UI and Tahoma fonts not the whole WINDOWSFONTDIR. Or more generally the question is - is there a way to cache only a given subset of fonts that reside in WINDOWSFONTDIR? The thing is that caching the whole WINDOWSFONTDIR is time consuming and I use only several fonts from it so I don't need all those fonts cached...

Thanks,
Rado


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On Thursday, February 4, 2021 8:28 AM, Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:

> What exactly do you want to do? If you don't need fonts from
> "WINDOWSFONTDIR", you can simply drop the line of
> "<dir>WINDOWSFONTDIR</dir>" from your fonts.conf. that will stop
> creating caches for "WINDOWSFONTDIR" though.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 9:48 PM Radoslav Stoyanov
> radoslav.stoyanov at protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello group,
> > I would like to ask if there is a way to set fonts.conf file so that only particular fonts are cached and not the entire WINDOWSFONTDIR?
> > From what I understood from the docs and after some good number of experiments I couldn't find a way to do it. I've noticed that when I blacklist several fonts the cache file size remains the same. So I guess that whole WINDOWSFONTDIR is cached every time and then the black list filter is applied. So seems like there is no way to not cache the whole WINDOWSFONTDIR...
> > Thank you very much,
> > Rado
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> Akira TAGOH