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Re: [hylafax-users] font metrics




Try creating symlinks to the AFM directories from where Hylafax looks for
the font info.

Ian

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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