'lo,

I had almost the same problem (could be because I kinda borrowed some of this code in one of my scripts ;) ). The problem seemed to be Font::TTF::Font, $n->release() did the trick.

Don't forget that in your example you change the original reference, so you don't have any method 'release' anymore (I forgot that initially). 

my $n = Font::TTF::Font->open($f) || $f;
$tmp = $n->{name} || $f if ref $n;
$tmp = $tmp->read->find_name(4) || $f if ref $n;
$n->release() if ref $n;

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This brought back memory usage from ~25mb (crash at 1020 fonts) to ~6mb (all my fonts, 1035).


    december

PS: Where did you find the find_name(4) reference? I haven't found any documentation about the exact usage of find_name and the meaning of its $nid parameter...

In reply to Re: TrueType font gallery by december
in thread TrueType font gallery by Juerd

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