In article <1238716328.7159.17.ca...@duiker>, John-Mark Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:09 +0100, Dave Symes wrote: > > Updated Netsurf to Yesterdays (1st April) version. > > The message reads "Scanning fonts-please wait" So how many hours does > > one wait while the machine is frozen literally, for this scan to > > finish. > > > > After a substantial amount of time at Times.New.Roman and 88% showing > > on the hourglass the only way I could get control of the machine was a > > back button reset. > > > > Eventually, the only way I could get Netsurf to behave was temporarily > > switch off all the fonts in my Font manager.
> Are you sure that you haven't added any new fonts recently? The font > scanning code has not been changed for years. NetSurf's log file should > shed some light on which font is currently causing problems. > John. Not added any new fonts for quite a while... many months at least. Dave --
