RE>Re: flexfax: Broken Font Config with textfmt

[Michael Firkins <michael@sa.lyppard.com.au>]

Hi
Could you possibly send me a copy of the perl script to link in my 
ghostscript fonts for textfmt?

I would also appreciate any sources you may know of for generating good 
looking output from the command line. I have been battling with 
groff/troff but there is not much information available that I can 
find. My application is for PO's. the top 25% of the document is always 
the same, the rest is variable. 

I was considering generating the bottom section from the database and 
joining the top section on with a script. How is this sort of thing 
commonly accomplished?

Thanks,

Michael

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Date: 7/9/98 8:08 AM
To: Michael Firkins
From: Phil Watkinson
At 16:16 03/09/98 -0700, Aaron Newsome <aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com> wrote:
>Textfmt is complaining that it cannot find metric files for Courier-
>Bold, so hylafax is unable to send ASCII text attachments.
>
>Does anyone know how to fix this. I looked at the
>ghostscript/fonts/Fontmap file but I guess I really don't have a clue.
>
>The Hylafax docs simply skim over the Fonts issue completely.
>

Hi,

Well, Q44 in the HylaFAX FAQ covers this. Briefly, textfmt doesn't 
use the ghostscript Fontmap. It looks for a file, for instance, 
called 'Courier-Bold.afm' and, if it cannot find that, a file called
'Courier-Bold' in the AFM directory.

You can :

(1)  Use the afm fonts included in the source package; or if you 
     have a binary distribution without them, there is a seperate 
     file called afm-tar.gaz at ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/binary.

(2)  If you want to use the ghostscript fonts, which use a dos
     compatible 8.3 filename format, you have two choices : 

     (a) provide your own links; there is a perl script which looks
         at the Fontmap file and creates the links. I will send
         the script 'fontmap.perl' directly to you.

     (b) use Robert Colquhoun's textfmt-fontmap.patch which enhances
         HylaFAX textfmt/faxmail to use the ghostscript Fontmap
         directly. Obviously you will need to be happy about 
         patching, compiling, and installing the source. Robert's
         webpage is at http://www.trump.net.au/~rjc/hylafax/

Hope this helps,

Phil Watkinson,
Boston, UK.