Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm tryng to set up my woody machine to send faxes (as a clinet to an > existing Hylafax server). > > I edited /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf and added: > > Host: black > > Where black is the servers name. > > But whn I run sendfax, I get the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/hylafax$ sendfax -d 7453195 /etc/services > textfmt: No font metric information found for "cob". > 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 cob -p 11 -s default > >/tmp//faxsndAwqbGM
It's looking for information on the cob font. That's supplied by the 'enscript' package, and should be in /usr/share/enscript/cob.afm. Do you have the enscript package installed? But that should be required by the hylafax-client package, so I don't know why you wouldn't. By the way, in the 'teach a man to fish' category, the way I found all this out was: man textfmt # Hmm, the last few lines tell me where the font files are cd /etc/hylafax grep cob * # Hmm, it's showing me that the typerules file runs textfmt using that font less typerules # OK, yeah, that's what it's doing, to convert the text file to postscript ls /usr/share/encscript # Hmmm, I've got a cob.afm file in there, sure enough >From there, I zgrepped the Contents.gz file for Potato, downloadable from I forget where on the Debian site, for 'cob.afm'. Voila, it comes from the enscript package! Hope that helps.
