textfmt

hyla.conf has the right path nowadays, but still I get an error:

$ sendfax -n -d 0764203538 /etc/issue.net
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 Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
Error converting document; command was "textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s default >'/tmp//sndfax7sUaCG' <'/etc/issue.net'"

You need to find the directories containing 'Fontmap' or 'Fontmap.GS' file[s] and put these directories (separated by colons if there are more than one directory) into the 'FontMap' entry in /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf

On my Ubuntu 9.10 it's:

FontMap: /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts

A more generic solution would be:

fm=`locate Fontmap | perl -ne 'chomp; if (s!/Fontmap(?:\.GS)?$!!) { $d{$_}=1; } END { print join(":", keys %d), "\n" } '`
if [ "$fm" ]
then
perl -pi -e's!^(FontMap:\s*).*!$1'${fm}'!' /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf
else
echo "Sorry, can't find any Fontmap files"
fi

The package should either have the correct FontMap entry hard-coded into the hyla.conf file, or use some scripting like above to find the right path[s].

Please use hylafax from Debian or wait until version 6.0.4-10 migrate to Ubuntu. That new version include FontMap path information for many Debian and Ubuntu version.

Hello,

Could you backport the new version to Lucid as well please?

Thanks,
Antonio

I believe the latest packages, version 6.0.4-10, should work out of the box on any Debian and Ubuntu release.

This bug was fixed in the package hylafax - 2:6.0.5-5ubuntu1

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hylafax (2:6.0.5-5ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches/901_fchmod-prototype.patch: glibc now includes
      a fchmod prototype which doesn't match hylafax's. (Closes: #565001)
  * Upload should fixes: (LP: #372605, #476098, 595610)

hylafax (2:6.0.5-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove /etc/default/hylafax when puring package (Closes: #607064)

hylafax (2:6.0.5-4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Fix "installation fails": check for existence of /etc/mtab before using it
    (closes: #604221).
  * Fix "prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by
    the user": write to /etc/default/hylafax only if it doesn't exist
    (closes: #603429).
 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:10:59 +0100