Re: Using ghostscript 4.03 and HylaFAX

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Matthew Rice wrote:

> > 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"
> 
> Well it looks like I get to talk about the textfmt problem afterall :-)
> Did anyone ever have this problem on a non-Linux system?

I ran into similar stuff building the SCO binaries.
The fonts that come with HylaFAX must be in $AFMDIR for textfmt to work
Check .../spool/etc/setup.cache. Look for the AFMDIR= line. 
Make sure it points to the same directory as you ghostscript fonts.
Make sure the following font files from HylaFAX are there.
AvantGarde-Book               Helvetica-Oblique
AvantGarde-BookOblique        NewCenturySchlbk-Bold
AvantGarde-Demi               NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic
AvantGarde-DemiOblique        NewCenturySchlbk-Italic
Bookman-Demi                  NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
Bookman-DemiItalic            Palatino-Bold
Bookman-Light                 Palatino-BoldItalic
Bookman-LightItalic           Palatino-Italic
Courier                       Palatino-Oblique
Courier-Bold                  Palatino-Roman
Courier-BoldOblique           Symbol
Courier-Oblique               Times-Bold
Helvetica                     Times-BoldItalic
Helvetica-Bold                Times-Italic
Helvetica-BoldOblique         Times-Oblique
Helvetica-Narrow              Times-Roman
Helvetica-Narrow-Bold         ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique  ZapfDingbats
Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique


I found that if I  ran configure again when those fonts were in place
the "make install" would not install the fonts. So when I moved my
prodction HylaFAX and ghostscript fonts out of the way to
do a "make install" for distribution there were no fonts installed.


Hope this helps some.

> 
> 
> > 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 (?)].
> 
> Actually, from tracing textfmt, I've found that it doesn't even look for
> Fontmap.  The next update will probably be compiled to use /usr/share/...
> as the AFMDIR because 3.33 uses it too.
> 
> 
> > Anyone got any ideas what to try next ? Other than obtaining the sources
> > and starting from scratch, that is.
> 
> Use strace(1) to watch the files that are being stat/open'ed.
> Here's a snippet that others have used to solve this problem:
> /********** BEGIN EXCERPT *****************/
> I did a trace on textfmt here and it doesn't seem to be opening the
> Fontmap file.  I get:
> 
> open("/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Courier.afm", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> fi
> le or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/Courier", O_RDONLY) = 7
> 
> You could try putting a link from ncrb.gsf to Courier.
> /********** END EXCERPT ******************/
> 
> If you send me details about your solution, I would be more than
> happy to add it to the INSTALL notes.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Matthew Rice                             e-mail: matthew.rice@ftlsol.com
> 

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