Thank you for your quick reply. I'm trying to test that if I do not have write permission to a directory/disk, can I still use some fonts to display some texts when my application executes at run time. By "point the cache file at a non-existant directory, which will (silently) fail to work" do you mean edit the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file and add the tag? <cache>/etc/nonexistant</cache> >From: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> >To: "Sharon Lam" <sharon_lam_kiki@xxxxxxxxxxx> >CC: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Configuration File Format Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 >14:17:22 -0800 > > >Around 14 o'clock on Jan 12, "Sharon Lam" wrote: > > > Is there a way to turn off the default of the cache file so that > > the .fonts.cache-1 file will not be created for the per-user cache? > >No there isn't. You can, of course, point the cache file at a >non-existant directory, which will (silently) fail to work. This will >have a similar effect, unless somehow the named direction is created at >some point in the future. > >Note that if you have any font directories which are out of sync with >their cache files, every application in the system will rescan those fonts >to compute their own version of the font information. As a correlary, if >every directory is in sync, the .fonts.cache-1 file will be empty. > >Can you explain what problem you're trying to solve? Perhaps there's a >different solution than not having a per-user cache file. > >-keith > > ><< attach3 >> _________________________________________________________________ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN® Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*.
