Re: flexfax: Installing new RPM...

[evan@telly.org (Evan Leibovitch)]

Ed Weinberg writes:

> I just installed the new RPM for hylafax-4.0-3.
 
> I get the following message:
> Font Courier-Bold: /usr/lib/hyla/afm/Courier-Bold: Can not open font
> metrics file; using fixed widths.
> 460 Failed to submit job 2: Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such
> device or address.
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?

I haven't tried the RPM, but if your Linux system is like mine
HylaFax's 'textfmt' doesn't llke the way the new Ghostscript
maintains its font-metric files. The new one uses a filename
called "Fontmap" to map fontnames to filenames, in the old version
the font name *was* the file name.

I've uploaded a perl script to Sam that creates the symbolic links
necessary to make textfmt happy.

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