Bug 1787668 - fonttosfnt update required for converting bitmap fonts to OpenType bitmap (*.otb)
Summary: fonttosfnt update required for converting bitmap fonts to OpenType bitmap (*....
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-font-utils
Version: 31
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1748495
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-01-03 22:40 UTC by Hans Ulrich Niedermann
Modified: 2020-01-13 02:19 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-43.fc31
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Last Closed: 2020-01-13 02:19:36 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2020-01-03 22:40:27 UTC
Description of problem:

    fonttosfnt needs a few fixes and improvements from upstream
    and maybe upstream's pull requests to properly generate
    *.otb files from legacy bitmap font files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

    xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-42.fc31.x86_64

How reproducible:

    100%

Steps to Reproduce:

    1. fonttosfnt -b -c -g 2 -m 2 -o terminusn.otb ter-u*n.bdf

Actual results:

    Weird spacing with the *.otb font.

Expected results:

    Proper spacing with the *.otb font.

Additional info:

    The details can be found at
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753295 and
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1748495
    which I will summarized them properly in this bug later, but
    first we need a bug for this issue.

Comment 1 Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2020-01-04 00:31:48 UTC
As to the pull requests for using fonttosfnt for converting bitmap fonts to *.otb:

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753295#c4, Peng Wu mentioned merge requests number 2 to 4 on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/merge_requests.

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753295#c10, Peng Wu mentioned
another merge request: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/merge_requests/5

So there appear to be 5 merge requests related to using fonttosfnt for bitmap font conversion to OpenType bitmaps in total, and all but https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/merge_requests/2 have been merged upstream.

Some other issues might come up after the time I am writing this, but as of right now, this bug would be solved if all of the above merge requests have ended up in Fedora's fonttosfnt utility.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2020-01-06 04:07:05 UTC
FEDORA-2020-d6b7315fc4 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-d6b7315fc4

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-01-07 01:06:20 UTC
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-43.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-d6b7315fc4

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-01-13 02:19:36 UTC
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-43.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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