Re: [Devel] PCF driver improvement

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Often the PCF driver sets the width and height of the bitmap font to
> 12 since it cant find out the correct values. I investigated this
> and found that the .pcf files dont contain a "PIXEL_SIZE" property
> in this case, but a "POINT_SIZE" property was there. Also it seems
> that the "PIXEL_SIZE" property must NOT be corrected by the
> resolution, but instead the "POINT_SIZE" property must be corrected,
> so I suggest this changes to src/pcf/pcfread.c:

Francesco, please check this.

> Since there seems to be no bdftopcf for AmigaOS, my repertoire of
> .pcf files is rather limited, so please check if its right that
> POINT_SIZE must be corrected by resolution and PIXEL_SIZE not to get
> the width and height in pixels (by trying fonts for a resolution
> different from 75 dpi).

Nevertheless, I can imagine that GNU diff has been ported to
AmigaOS...  Using this program with the -u option makes diffs much
more readable.  Can you give it a try?


    Werner