[Image-SIG] Bug#133272: python-imaging-doc: pilfont utility does not work (fwd)

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

I just received the attached bug report. Has anyone on this list already
experienced this problem?

   Simon

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Date: 10 Feb 2002 13:06:43 -0800
From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#133272: python-imaging-doc: pilfont utility does not work
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           python-imaging@packages.qa.debian.org

Package: python-imaging-doc
Version: 1.1.2-4

The pilfont utility does not work.  Using python 2.1, for
instance, along with cour08.bdf provided in the python-imaging
source package:

    blp@pfaff:~/tmp/python-imaging-1.1.2/Images(1)$ python /usr/share/doc/python-imaging-doc/examples/pilfont.py courB08.bdf
    PILFONT 0.3 -- PIL font compiler.
    Copyright (c) Fredrik Lundh 1997.  All rights reserved.

    courB08.bdf...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/doc/python-imaging-doc/examples/pilfont.py", line 52, in ?
        p = BdfFontFile.BdfFontFile(fp)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/PIL/BdfFontFile.py", line 86, in __init__
        FontFile.FontFile.__init__()
    TypeError: unbound method __init__() must be called with instance as first argument
    blp@pfaff:~/tmp/python-imaging-1.1.2/Images(1)$

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