Windows: Gimp loading fonts on each startup: possible workaround

[Ofnuts]

(03-07-2018, 09:42 PM)Creative Scott Wrote:

(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.

Renaming the font cache file works perfectly.  Startup went from 30 seconds to 3 seconds and I still have all the fonts to use.

Thanks for the confirmation!