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Re: [hylafax-users] font metrics
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 17:20, Ian Firla wrote:
> Do you get errors when you run faxsetup?
I do get two warnings concerning 'vgetty' and 'egetty' but I don't think
they have anything to do with it, do they? Then it just asks me if it
should restart the server processes and quits nicely.
tom
> 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
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> > > > Tom Schouteden
> > > > Consultant
> > > >
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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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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
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