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Inkscape
Rendering and text layout in Inkscape rely on on-disk caches for discovered fonts, fontconfig or Pango text metadata, rendered preview thumbnails, and temporary rasterized surfaces used while opening or editing SVG documents. Those files speed up startup, font menus, and redraws, but they can become stale after font installs, removals, upgrades, or graphics stack changes; Kudu removes only Inkscape's cache contents so the application rebuilds them without touching your SVG files, preferences, extensions, or saved presets.
Why clean Inkscape?
- Stale font discovery data after installing or removing typefaces makes fonts missing or duplicated in the Text tool and font selector until Inkscape rescans them
- Outdated Pango or fontconfig cache entries can substitute the wrong face or weight, so text suddenly reflows, wraps differently, or exports with unexpected spacing
- Corrupt rendered preview thumbnails cause blank document previews or old artwork snapshots in recent-file views even though the SVG itself is fine
- Cached rasterized surfaces from a previous session can leave ghosted redraws, checkerboard artifacts, or delayed canvas updates when zooming and panning complex illustrations
- After system font package updates, Inkscape may spend a long time at launch rebuilding inconsistent text and rendering caches, showing a slow first start and then returning to normal
- Graphics stack or display backend changes can invalidate cached rendering data, leading to missing filters, incorrect gradient previews, or temporary flicker until fresh cache files are generated
- Cache directories can accumulate many obsolete font and preview files over time, wasting disk space and making troubleshooting harder when text rendering problems appear intermittently
What gets cleaned
Cache paths Kudu targets
Windows
%LocalAppData%/inkscape/cache |
macOS
~/Library/Caches/org.inkscape.Inkscape |
Linux
~/.cache/inkscape |
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