NAME¶
fc-cache - build font information cache files
SYNOPSIS¶
fc-cache [
-frsvVh ] [
--force ] [
--really-force ]
[
--system-only ] [
--verbose ] [
--version ] [
--help ] [
dir... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
fc-cache scans the font directories on the system and builds font
information cache files for applications using fontconfig for their font
handling.
If directory arguments are not given,
fc-cache uses each directory in the
current font configuration. 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.
Note that
fc-cache must be executed once per architecture to generate
font information customized for that architecture.
OPTIONS¶
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
- -f
- Force re-generation of apparently up-to-date cache files, overriding the
timestamp checking.
- -r
- Erase all existing cache files and rescan.
- -s
- Only scan system-wide directories, omitting the places located in the
user's home directory.
- -v
- Display status information while busy.
- -h
- Show summary of options.
- -V
- Show version of the program and exit.
- dir
- Directory to scan for fonts.
FILES¶
- %cachdir%/*-%arch%.cache-2
- These files are generated by fc-cache and contain maps from file
names to font properties. They are read by the fontconfig library at
application startup to locate appropriate fonts.
SEE ALSO¶
fc-cat(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1)
fc-query(1) fc-scan(1)
The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format:
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> and
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>.