Re: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE

[Ertan Kucukoglu <ertank@ozlerplastik.com>]

Michael Lyngbøl wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:35:37PM +0200, Bernd Proissl wrote:
> >
> >
> > have a look at
> > http://www.hylafax.org/patches/tiff-3.5-interfaces.patch
> 
> OK - I suppose it's to apply to 4.1b2? Done that, build and installed
> it, but now "sendfax" fails:
> 
> lyngbol@box ~$ sendfax -d 12345678 ~/tmp/dummy.php
> /usr/local/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for
> "Courier-Bold".
> Usage: /usr/local/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname]
> [-F fontdir(s)] [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V
> #] files... >out.ps
> Default options: -f Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
> Error converting data; command was "/usr/local/sbin/textfmt -B -f
> Courier-Bold -p 11 -s default >/tmp//faxsndM22999
> </home/lyngbol/tmp/dummy.php"
> lyngbol@box ~$
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks
> /Michael
> 
Hi,

I don't know the exact solution of your problem, but I have an idea.

If you have a chance try to send fax from a client machine as post script
document. If you send post script you needn't use textfmt (so you don't need
any font convertion).

Regards,

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Ertan Kucukoglu
ertank@ozlerplastik.com