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

[Ricardo Kleemann <ricardo@americasnet.com>]

I had the same problems. Make sure you're pointing to the font directory
properly (usually /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts and that the fonts are
properly installed.

On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Mark Lehrer 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"
> 
> 
> 
> I tried this on a Red Hat system, and on a Slackware system.  I started
> to trace it through gdb but it was non-obvious how to correct this.  Could
> someone please point me in the right direction here?  This is a very
> frustrating problem.
> 
> Thanks!
> Mark
>