Re: Please help, I beg you (textfmt question)

[Richard Sharpe <admin@ns.aus.com>]

Hi Mark,

At 04:15 PM 17/01/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I have installed ghostscript, and I am using hylafax 4.0; but sendfax
>bombs with the following message:
>
>
>/usr/local/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold".
>Usage: /usr/local/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname] [-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//faxsnda20702 </etc/smb.conf.orig"

textfmt uses _FONT_AFMDIR to find the afm file for the font specified on its
command line. If a file with .afm cannot be found then it looks for a file
without the .afm. (actually, TextFmt.c++ does it, not textfmt.c++)

On my Linux system, I found the font files in /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts. On
the ULTRIX system I worked on, they were in a different directory.

Do you have ghostscript installed? Do you have the ghostscript fonts installed?

If you look in config.h (I think) you will find the definition of
_FONT_AFMDIR for HylaFAX and you can check if the config is correct.

>Thanks!
>Mark


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