Re: flexfax: Broken Font Config with textfmt

[Aaron Newsome <aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com>]

Phil, thank you so much for your prompt and concise answer.

They always said OpenSource support was the best, and I now still
believe that.

I'll be looking foward to that perl script if you still have it.

Thanks a bunch.

Aaron Newsome


Phil Watkinson wrote:
> 
> At 16:16 03/09/98 -0700, Aaron Newsome <aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com> wrote:
> >Textfmt is complaining that it cannot find metric files for Courier-
> >Bold, so hylafax is unable to send ASCII text attachments.
> >
> >Does anyone know how to fix this. I looked at the
> >ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap file but I guess I really don't have a clue.
> >
> >The Hylafax docs simply skim over the Fonts issue completely.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Well, Q44 in the HylaFAX FAQ covers this. Briefly, textfmt doesn't
> use the ghostscript Fontmap. It looks for a file, for instance,
> called 'Courier-Bold.afm' and, if it cannot find that, a file called
> 'Courier-Bold' in the AFM directory.
> 
> You can :
> 
> (1)  Use the afm fonts included in the source package; or if you
>      have a binary distribution without them, there is a seperate
>      file called afm-tar.gaz at ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/binary.
> 
> (2)  If you want to use the ghostscript fonts, which use a dos
>      compatible 8.3 filename format, you have two choices :
> 
>      (a) provide your own links; there is a perl script which looks
>          at the Fontmap file and creates the links. I will send
>          the script 'fontmap.perl' directly to you.
> 
>      (b) use Robert Colquhoun's textfmt-fontmap.patch which enhances
>          HylaFAX textfmt/faxmail to use the ghostscript Fontmap
>          directly. Obviously you will need to be happy about
>          patching, compiling, and installing the source. Robert's
>          webpage is at http://www.trump.net.au/~rjc/hylafax/
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Phil Watkinson,
> Boston, UK.