Re: [hylafax-users] font metrics

[Tom Schouteden <tom.schouteden@linugen.com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 17:12, Ian Firla wrote:
> Are the locations in the errors the same as the locations in the conf
> file?

There is no location in the error message.  This is the entire message:

burns:/# sendfax -d 123456789 /etc/hosts
/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  -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s default >/tmp//sndfaxtXvv6O
</etc/hosts"
burns:/#

> When I had this problem, I resolved it by creating symlinks to the
> directories that faxconfig through up.

I already made symlinks to every directory imaginable.  I can't imagine
where it would look for fonts elsewhere. Faxconfig doesn't cough up any
directories, I haven't even used that command ...

tom

> On 17 Mar 2003, Tom Schouteden wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 17:04, Ian Firla wrote:
> > > Try creating symlinks to the AFM directories from where Hylafax looks for
> > > the font info.
> >
> > Hi Ian
> >
> > If HylaFAX really looks in the directory which I specified in the
> > hyla.conf file, the font metrics are already there.  So that wouldn't
> > make a difference.  When I run a `gs -h` and check for the Search path,
> > the fonts are already there as well.
> >
> > any other suggestions?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > tom
> >
> > > On 17 Mar 2003, Tom Schouteden wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I've been working on this issue for a couple of hours now and have
> > > > searched through the online documentation, faq's and mailinglist archive
> > > > with no result, even though this seems to be a fairly common problem.
> > > >
> > > > I'm installing HylaFAX 4.1.5 on a Debian Unstable (2.4.19) system, using
> > > > AFPL Ghostscript 8.00.  Everything is compiled from source and without
> > > > errors.  Yet when I try to use sendfax, I get the error message:
> > > >
> > > > burns:~/fax# sendfax -d 123456789 /etc/hosts
> > > > /usr/local/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for
> > > > "Courier-Bold".
> > > >
> > > > I've installed the AFM font metric package and copied the fonts to every
> > > > fontdir you can imagine.  I also created and edited the hyla.conf file
> > > > with the following lines:
> > > >
> > > > FontMap:                /usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.00/lib
> > > > FontPath:               /usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.00/lib
> > > >
> > > > What am I doing wrong?  I tried everything, IMO, and it's still not
> > > > working :(.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > > tom
> > > >
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> ------------
> Dr Ian Firla
> Robert Graves Trust		| "A partial count of the software available
> St John's College, Oxford       | in just one noncommerical Linux system
> OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565	| would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop
> http://www.robertgraves.org	| ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens
> 
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