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Re: [hylafax-users] font metrics




Are the locations in the errors the same as the locations in the conf
file?

When I had this problem, I resolved it by creating symlinks to the
directories that faxconfig through up.

Ian

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
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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