X taking _long_ time to render fonts

[Marc Christensen <marc@example.com>]

I have a large (with many char sets) Unicode font from Agfa that I have
been working with and noticed that anytime I try to start an application
using it, the X font server seems think it must render the entire font.  
This can take up to several minutes making it really unusable.  Has anyone
noticed behaviour like this?  I'm using FreeType.  I can get more details
if needed.  Thanks

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Marc C.
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