Bug#1013267: fontforge: BDF font generation: FONT_ASCENT and FONT_DESCENT properties are missing
Control: tags -1 upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/5089
On 2022-06-20 13:44:55 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> FontForge generate invalid BDF files with File → Generate Fonts.
> As a consequence, bdftopcf complains and the font is unusable.
>
> To reproduce (e.g. without modifying the original font):
>
> fontforge /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/6x13.pcf.gz
>
> then generate the BDF file (choose 75 as the BDF resolution, as
> in the original font). Then
>
> $ bdftopcf FixedMedium-13.bdf
> BDF Error on line 29: missing 'FONT_ASCENT' or 'FONT_DESCENT' properties
> bdftopcf: bdf input, FixedMedium-13.bdf, corrupt
I can reproduce the issue with the current upstream master.
So I have reported the bug upstream.
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