Re: Please help, I beg you (textfmt question)

[Matthew Rice <Matthew.Rice@ftlsol.com>]

I've seen a lot of problems with ghostscript's installation of fonts.
You could try doing an strace(1) to see what files textfmt thinks that
it should be opening.

Good luck,

> I have installed ghostscript, and I am using hylafax 4.0; but sendfax
> bombs with the following message:
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold".
> Usage: /usr/local/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname] [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V #] files... >out.ps
> Default options: -f Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
> Error converting data; command was "/usr/local/sbin/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold -p 11 -s default >/tmp//faxsnda20702 </etc/smb.conf.orig"

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Matthew Rice                             e-mail: matthew.rice@ftlsol.com