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Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font

From Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font
Date 2017-03-23 18:20 +0100
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Quoting Stéphane Lavergne (2017-03-23 17:28:58)
> FYI based on the documentation I could find, you are correct in 
> assuming that the first of those three fields should be a POINT size, 
> and not a pixel size.  See: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format#Example
> 
> In my current attempt to modify my system's cursors (decompiling 
> "cursor.pcf.gz", making a slight change and re-compiling), bdftopcf 
> did not complain if I replaced "-1" with "16" (my best guess).
> 
> Note that I also had to edit the COPYRIGHT line which had unescaped 
> double quotes around "glyphs" in this example, which I had to remove 
> by hand in the BDF file in order for bdftopcf's resulting binary to 
> include the full statement.

It seems upstream already fixed this in version 1.05.

Could you please check if this issue is fixed in most recent Debian 
package?


Regards,

 - Jonas

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Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font Stéphane Lavergne <lis@imars.com> - 2017-03-23 17:40 +0100
  Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2017-03-23 18:20 +0100
    Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font Stéphane Lavergne <lis@imars.com> - 2017-03-23 18:30 +0100
      Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2017-03-23 19:30 +0100
        Bug#488328: pcf2bdf: SIZE directive from cursor font Stéphane Lavergne <lis@imars.com> - 2017-03-23 20:40 +0100

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