Denis Auroux twisted the bytes to say:
Denis> Hi all,
Denis> About the win32 issue with xournal hanging at the end of the first
Denis> text selection item: I have confirmed that this is indeed an issue
Denis> with creation of the fontconfig library cache. It seems to take
Denis> several minutes; once the cache is created everything runs smoothly
Denis> again (perhaps until the next cleanup of temporary files or
Denis> large-scale installation of new fonts?)
Denis> The cache file on my system is in
Denis> c:/Users/(username)/AppData/Local/Temp/fontconfig/cache/
Denis> It seems that libgnomecanvas is hardwired to use the pangoft2
Denis> background for text rendering, which in turn uses Freetype and
Denis> Fontconfig. So I think the only thing we can do (short of rewriting to
Denis> use a different canvas, as in Daniel's gtk3 branch) is warn users
Denis> about the issue...
I should say that I haven't worked on it for some time. I have been a
bit disappointed by the fact that the performance of goocanvas is not at
part with the one of libgnomecanvas. :( Once a page has a lot of
writing, the canvas becomes becomes a bottleneck :(
I am not sure how to fix it. Everything else is almost working (at least
it is usable).
--dmg
Denis> Denis
Denis> On 06/09/2014 04:02 PM, D M German wrote:
>>> I am alas still not able to reproduce the problem consistently. I
>>> wondered at some point if it was one of the freetype/fontconfig/...
>>> libraries trying to create a cache of all windows fonts in its own
>>> format, and taking forever to do so; but now that it's been done on my
>>> system things work smoothly.
>>
>> mmm, you might be right... the problem disappeared... mmm....
>>
>> --dmg
>>
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