Re: [hylafax-users] font metrics

[Ian Firla <ian@deepsky.com>]

Do you get errors when you run faxsetup?

Ian

On 17 Mar 2003, Tom Schouteden wrote:

> 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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> Tom Schouteden
> Consultant
>
> Linugen
> Borkelstraat 2/4
> B2900 Schoten
> Belgium
> T +32 3 685 39 81
> F +32 3 293 33 43
> M +32 475 45 85 55
> www.linugen.com
>
>

------------
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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