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Windows: Gimp loading fonts on each startup: possible workaround
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(02-28-2018, 03:15 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Gimp displays "Looking for data files / fonts (this may take a while)" on each startup

This is not the normal behavior. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793918

Gimp should rebuild the font cache only when the fonts are added to/removed from the system.

A possible workaround:
  • Navigate to C:\users\{your id}\AppData\local\fontconfig\cache
  • There should be four files:
    • CACHEDIR.TAG
    • someverylongname (usually 1MB or more)
    • someverylongname.NEW (usually 1MB or more, slightly bigger that the one above if you added fonts)
    • someotherverylongname (small: 1K)
  • rename someverylongname to someverylongname.OLD
  • rename someverylongname.NEW to someverylongname
  • restart Gimp which should no longer rebuild the font cache

If this works for you please confirm below.

Somehow it got set back to the old slow way, so I did it again, and it works again, saves a lot of time. I wonder how it got unset.
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RE: Gimp loading fonts on each startup - by Kevin - 02-28-2018, 04:09 PM
RE: Windows: Gimp loading fonts on each startup: possible workaround - by vonoretn - 04-07-2019, 06:08 PM

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