What is 'fontworker' doing?

From	briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	What is 'fontworker' doing?
Date	2014-02-24 23:21 -0500
Organization	PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID	<leh5p2$p8d$1@panix1.panix.com> (permalink)

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Running the latest of everything on a MacBook Pro.  System has been real
sluggish all day, and 'top' shows that around half the CPU time is being taken
up by "fontworker".  From the man description, I can't see why it would be
running at all, let alone the dominant process.

If I 'kill' it, another instance appears immediately.  Rebooting doesn't seem
to help, either.  Any suggestions?

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What is 'fontworker' doing? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-02-24 23:21 -0500
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