Re: Using ghostscript 4.03 and HylaFAX

[Mark Lehrer <mark@lehrer.nlcomm.com>]

I had the same problem... Textfmt does not work with the standard
ghostscript fonts - I found another set and put them in 
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts and textfmt started working.

However, I still have not gotten the ps2fax step to work, so
perhaps my "fix" isn't correct.

Unfortunately, I do not know where we found these replacement fonts.
I do know that they are named by their font names and do not use
that ridiculous font map file.

Sorry that this doesn't help you much; I'll tar up these font files
if you need them.

Mark




> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am setting up HylaFAX 4.0pl1 on a Linux RedHat 4.0 system. I have used
> Matthew Rice's excellent binary distribution in the 'rpm' package form.
> 
> I have installed Ghostscript 4.03 also from 'rpm' packages, namely :-
>         libpng-0.89c-1.i386.rpm
>         ghostscript-fonts-4.03-1.i386.rpm
>         ghostscript-4.03-1.i386.rpm
> which has placed the fonts in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
> 
> Problem is, when I did my first test fax (sendfax -n -d 723304 /etc/passwd)
> textfmt bombed out with 
>         "No font metric information found for Courier-Bold"
> 
> Q44 of the FAQ recommends amending the AFMDIR parameter of setup.cache and
> then re-compiling the source. The mailing list archives has a note from
> Matthew dated 18/1/97 implying that recompiling would probably not be
> necessary. However, this hasn't worked in my case.
> 
> I have also tried adding a 'FontDir' parameter to /var/local/lib/fax/
> hyla.conf; and have also tried a symbolic link; rebooting between attempts.
> Permissions look okay; mode 755 on the directories and 644 on the files.
> 
> I have even checked the ghostscript Fontmap is ensure that Courier-Bold is
> declared. [ While typing this, I have been stuck with the thought that 
> perhaps HylaFAX cannot find the Fontmap - it is in /usr/share/ghostscript/
> 4.03/ directory (?)].
> 
> Anyone got any ideas what to try next ? Other than obtaining the sources
> and starting from scratch, that is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil Watkinson,
> Boston, UK.
>