Very long startup time with many fonts installed - no visual feedback
Bug #418726 reported by
Lenz Grimmer
This bug affects 25 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have quite a large number of fonts installed on my system (more than 2000 TTF, ~3700 Type1 fonts), which cause a very long delay when starting Inkscape (~40 seconds on a Intel Core Duo System with 2.4 GHz and 4GB of RAM). Unfortunately there is no visual feedback at this point - it seems as if the application is hung or not started, which might cause GUI users to click on the application again (causing an even longer delay).
It would be nice if Inkscape could either cache font information somehow or at least provide some visual feedback about the ongoing font registration process (or whatever it is doing during these 40 seconds).
Thanks!
Does any other app (like word, excel, illustrator, etc.) take as much time? Aside from what this test might tell us, a total of 5700 fonts is way past the limit of what is advisable. It will slow down any application that needs fonts, specially those that show a menu or list with them, and there is no real advantage on installing them since you're not going to use them all the time anyway. It's better to install a font manager and activate selectively fonts that you are going to use at that moment.
My impression is that this is a problem with the massive number of fonts. Is a problem on the operating system, not due to Inkscape.