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textfmt can't find font info



I'm just trying a HylaFAX 4 install for the first time, on a
Linux 2.0.29 (Caldera) system. Ghostscript is a stock install off the
distribution CD. The binary package is hylafax-i386-linux-v4.0pl1-1.tar.gz
recently fetched off the FTP site

Everything installs and is running OK in terms of servers, modems, etc.
I believe I can send postscript files OK. I am having a problem with
sending textfiles.

The default typerules file wants to run textfmt using font
'Courier-Bold'. This leads to the generation of an error message
when running 'sendfax' on a plain-text file:

No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold"

...and it aborts the send.

When I change the typerules file to take out that font specification,
textfmt complains that it can't find "Courier" but uses a fix-pitch
font as default -- and the fax goes. (I haven't seen the result yet.)

I've had a look in my ghostscript fonts directory, and all seems to
be OK. While there is no file "Courier.afm" file, there is a "Fontmap"
file which looks intended to convert between Postscript font names and
actual filenames.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

-- 
 Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
Supporting PC-based Unix since 1985 / Caldera & SCO authorized / www.telly.org
If you're smart enough to be a programmer, you're too smart to be a programmer



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