fc-cache - build font information cache files
fc-cache [
-EfrsvVh ] [
--error-on-no-fonts ] [
--force ] [
--really-force ] [
[ -y dir ] [
--sysroot dir ] ] [
--system-only ] [
--verbose ] [
--version ] [
--help ] [
dir... ]
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.
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
- -E
- Raise an error if there are no fonts in
dir or directories in the configuration if not
given.
- -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.
- -y
- Prepend dir to all paths for
scanning.
- -h
- Show summary of options.
- -V
- Show version of the program and exit.
-
dir
- Directory to scan for fonts.
fc-cache returns zero if the caches successfully generated. otherwise
non-zero.
-
%cachedir%/*-%arch%.cache-%version%
- 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.
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.
This manual page was written by Keith Packard <
[email protected]> and
Josselin Mouette <
[email protected]>.