Re: flexfax: 4.0pl2 on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE

[Michael Lyngbøl <michael@lyngbol.dk>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:40:07PM +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?
> I do not know, i never had to apply it. :-(

It applies clean to 4.1b2 and after hacking "configure" to accept
libtiff it compiles, installs, and runs fine (so far :)

> > 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?
> Just a guess:
> Is *.php a textfile? Maybe try it with a simple ascii textfile?

Yes:
root@box /root$ file ~lyngbol/tmp/dummy.php 
/home/lyngbol/tmp/dummy.php: ASCII text

Using other text files gave the same error.

making /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/Courier-Bold a symlink to
/usr/local/lib/afm/Courier-Bold fixed it.

Right now it's running quite fint!

Thank you
/Michael