Re: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

[James Smith <james.smith@xxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like when textfmt is invoked via sendfax, it works ok but when its invoked via the mailfax route, it fails

 

From: Matthew Nickerson [mailto:mnickerson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 2:21 PM
To: James Smith; hylafax-users (hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

 

Sounds like the same problem I had.  Here’s the solution that worked for me.   Just make the change to hyla.conf:

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Here's what's going on...

 

In Fontmap.HylaFAX it gives Courier-Bold as an alias for NimbusMonL-Bold.

 

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(Courier-Bold)  /NimbusMonL-Bold ;

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NumbusMonL-Bold is expected to be found in n0220041.pfb

 

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(NimbusMonL-Bold)       (n022004l.pfb) ;

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Searching the hard drive for the n0220041.pfb file finds it in two places...

 

lee@ubuntu6767:/var/spool/hylafax/etc$ find / -name n022004l.pfb 2>/dev/null /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb

/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/n022004l.pfb

 

However, textfmt is going to need the associated font metric file, and that only exists in one of those two places...

 

lee@ubuntu6767:/var/spool/hylafax/etc$ find / -name n022004l.afm 2>/dev/null /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.afm

 

So I changed your hyla.conf file to read...

 

lee@ubuntu6767:/var/spool/hylafax/etc$ cat /usr/local/lib/fax/hyla.conf

FontMap:   /var/spool/hylafax/etc

FontPath:  /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts

 

Now it works fine.

 

For what it's worth, the problem appears to be a bug in the Debian Ghostscript package.  The 'gs -h' output should include /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts, but it doesn't.  So it means that the Debian Ghostscript package is installing at least some fonts in a directory that is unknown to Ghostscript.

 

This Debian Ghostscript bug has been around a long time.  This is why I use the configure option:

 

  --with-PATH_AFM="/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts"

 

... in my build script for building the HylaFAX+ Debian binary (.deb

file) that is available on the Sourceforge files download page (both the build scripts and the binaries are available for download there).  It may be wise to run 'make distclean' and then re-run configure (with the suggested option), make and then make install.

 

Thanks,

 

Lee.

 

 

From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:17 AM
To: hylafax-users (hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

 

The distro is Ubuntu 10.04 with backports repository, which probably explains the FontMap line, but I have no idea why textfmt isn’t seeing the font metrics

 

 

From: Matthew Nickerson [mailto:mnickerson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 1:31 PM
To: James Smith; hylafax-users (hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: RE: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

 

What version of linux are you on?

 

From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:07 AM
To: hylafax-users (hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

 

Ok, a bit more digging and I found that in the hyla.conf entry for FontMap was pointing to a non-existant directory so I pointed it to the one that does exist like so:-

 

FontMap:  /usr/share/ghostscript/8.71/lib

 

But the textfmt command that is called by the script is still saying it cant find the font metrics.

 

It’s looking like it should be easy to fix, but I don’t know the spell to cast to get the textfmt command to see the font metrics

 

Any ideas anybody?

 

 

 

From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:44 AM
To: hylafax-users (hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

 

Ok, I fixed the initial script errors, but now faxmail is throwing me font errors

 

Font Courier: /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/Courier: Can not open font metrics file; using fixed widths.

Font Helvetica-Bold: /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/Helvetica-Bold: Can not open font metrics file; using fixed widths.

Font Helvetica-Oblique: /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/Helvetica-Oblique: Can not open font metrics file; using fixed widths

textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold".

 

 

I looked in the dir for the fonts mentioned and there are no font files with names, just numbers

 

Now I really am lost

 

 

 

 

 

From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:30 AM
To: hylafax-users (hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: [hylafax-users] mailfax script

 

Hi

 

I’m trying to get a mail to fax gateway going using the supplied mailfax script with postfix

 

The problem I’m having is that the script is returning an error when it tries to process an email

 

(Command died with status 2: "/usr/bin/mailfax". Command output: /usr/bin/mailfax: 121: Bad substitution )

 

I’ve typed the command in at the prompt with the parameters on the server just to check and it gives the same error

 

The line in question is

 

TMPVAR=${USER//\`/}

 

Any ideas anyone?

 

Thx