<!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [ <!-- Process this file with docbook-to-man to generate an nroff manual page: `docbook-to-man manpage.sgml > manpage.1'. You may view the manual page with: `docbook-to-man manpage.sgml | nroff -man | less'. A typical entry in a Makefile or Makefile.am is: manpage.1: manpage.sgml docbook-to-man $< > $@ The docbook-to-man binary is found in the docbook-to-man package. 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Each directory is scanned for font files readable by FreeType. A cache is created which contains properties of each font and the associated filename. This cache is used to speed up application startup when using the fontconfig library.</para> <para>Note that <command>&dhpackage;</command> must be executed once per architecture to generate font information customized for that architecture.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>OPTIONS</title> <para>This program follows the usual &gnu; command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><option>-f</option> <option>--force</option> </term> <listitem> <para>Force re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files, overriding the timestamp checking.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-r</option> <option>--really-force</option> </term> <listitem> <para>Erase all existing cache files and rescan.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-s</option> <option>--system-only</option> </term> <listitem> <para>Only scan system-wide directories, omitting the places located in the user's home directory.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-v</option> <option>--verbose</option> </term> <listitem> <para>Display status information while busy.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-h</option> <option>--help</option> </term> <listitem> <para>Show summary of options.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-V</option> <option>--version</option> </term> <listitem> <para>Show version of the program and exit.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option><replaceable>dir</replaceable></option> </term> <listitem> <para>Directory to scan for fonts.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>FILES</title> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><filename><replaceable>%cachdir%</replaceable>/*-<replaceable>%arch%</replaceable>.cache-2</filename></term> <listitem> <para>These files are generated by <command>&dhpackage;</command> and contain maps from file names to font properties. They are read by the fontconfig library at application startup to locate appropriate fonts.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>SEE ALSO</title> <para> <command>fc-cat</command>(1) <command>fc-list</command>(1) <command>fc-match</command>(1) <command>fc-pattern</command>(1) <command>fc-query</command>(1) <command>fc-scan</command>(1) </para> <para>The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: <filename>/usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html</filename>.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>AUTHOR</title> <para>This manual page was written by Keith Packard <email>keithp@keithp.com</email> and &dhusername; &dhemail;.</para> </refsect1> </refentry> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file Local variables: mode: sgml sgml-omittag:t sgml-shorttag:t sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-always-quote-attributes:t sgml-indent-step:2 sgml-indent-data:t sgml-parent-document:nil sgml-default-dtd-file:nil sgml-exposed-tags:nil sgml-local-catalogs:nil sgml-local-ecat-files:nil End: -->