Re: flexfax: faxmail fails on mime message/rfc822

[Robert Colquhoun <rjc@trump.net.au>]

At 14:46 1/09/98 +0900, Andrew S. Howell wrote:
>
>    Robert> There is a small patch for this at:
>    Robert> http://www.trump.net.au/~rjc/hylafax/
>
>Thanks, I'll apply that, and maybe the TextFmt patch to use
>ghostscript Fontmap encoding. Does that mean that AFM files are not
>used? 

Sortof, the ghostscript fonts package contain afm files as well as the
fonts themselves.  These are both mapped by the Fontmap file.  The patch
allows textfmt to directly read the Fontmap file(s) to find the afm file(No
need to provide your own afm file or to manually symlink to the ghostscript
one - its all automatic).

>For modifying TextFmt to handle Japanese, I need to figure out some
>way to determine glyph sizes. I use a patch for Ghostscript that use a
>library called vflib (Vector Font library) to access Japanese True
>Type fonts. I could use that directly, but then my changes would be
>tied to a vflib'd Ghostscript. I'm still in the early stages of
>getting to grips with this.
>
>If your interested, see:
>
>http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-vflib.html
>
>For information on how to set vflib with Ghostscript
>

I had a quick look, and to be honest i would do it in two stages.

First i would try to get it working with Type 1 fonts(the Kanji fonts
package??) which should have associated afm files.  Hopefully that
shouldn't require many changes to TextFmt.

And then after that is all going try to figure out a way to do True Type.

Good Luck :-)

- Robert