Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax Font Metric Errors

[Simon Perry <hylafax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hesco@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello:  
>
> That's a never mind on the password issue, browsing around among man
> pages and how-to documents, I found the faxadduser command, used it and
> got past the Login errors.  I also, finally, got another successful test
> of faxing out a .pdf.  That leaves the text files and the font metrics
> issue, still, though.  
>
> Here is what happens when I try to fee the sendfax command an ascii text
> file instead of a .pdf.  I haven't tried it yet, but I assume that the
> .ps files work fine.  
>
> hesco@biko:~$ ./fax.sh
> Password:
> textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold".
> Usage: textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname] [-F fontdir(s)]
> [-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V #] files...
>  
>
> > out.ps
> >    
> Default options: -f com -1 -p 11bp -o 0
> Error converting data; command was "textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold
> -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s default >/tmp//sndfaxi0MWGB <testfax.txt"
> hesco@biko:~$
>
> I used the Debian Packages search engine to figure out what packages I
> needed to install to fill in the missing files that were identified in
> the faxsetup log, reprinted below.  But my attempts to apt-get install
> gsfonts and gsfonts-other said those packages are already installed 
> and up-to-date.  I found a ghostscript/fonts directory in /usr/share and
> tried symlinking it from /usr/local/share, but that generated the same
> errors.  
>
> I see that the sendfax command is attempting to create a temporary file
> at /tmp//sndfaxiOMWGB.  It appears that a sub-directory name is missing
> in /tmp, which might be partially responsible.  But that doesn't explain
> the "No font metric information found" error.  Might it just be a matter
> of Courier-Bold being missing?  Where is a configuration file where I
> might choose another default font?  
>
> All clues are appreciated.  
>
>  
Hugh,

This has come up recently [0] to recap you need to create some symlinks 
from the directories where hylafax is looking for ghostscript files to 
where debian has them installed.

hth

Simon




[0] http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2004-04/msg00079.php

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