I have been trying to solve the infamous error:
/usr/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold"
when running sendfax to test asterisk + hylafax.
This is a bug in ghostscript-8.70-1 & fonts for Fedora Core 10. So if you are not using FC10 this may not be the answer you 're looking for.
To fix the error:
1) Download & extract latest ghostscript-fonts http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/
2) View the fonts.dir file and locate the file name of the font you wish to use for Courier-Bold, I chose n022004l.pfb
3) Copy n022004l.* (2 files) to /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/
4) Edit /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS and change:
/Courier-Bold /NimbusMonL-Bold ;
to:
/Courier-Bold (n022004l.pfa) ;
Try it now and it should work.
Of course this is just one of many solutions, the main point being that NimbusMonL-Bold cannot be found and causing the issue.
/usr/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold"
when running sendfax to test asterisk + hylafax.
This is a bug in ghostscript-8.70-1 & fonts for Fedora Core 10. So if you are not using FC10 this may not be the answer you 're looking for.
To fix the error:
1) Download & extract latest ghostscript-fonts http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/
2) View the fonts.dir file and locate the file name of the font you wish to use for Courier-Bold, I chose n022004l.pfb
3) Copy n022004l.* (2 files) to /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/
4) Edit /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS and change:
/Courier-Bold /NimbusMonL-Bold ;
to:
/Courier-Bold (n022004l.pfa) ;
Try it now and it should work.
Of course this is just one of many solutions, the main point being that NimbusMonL-Bold cannot be found and causing the issue.
2 comments:
this was exactly what i needed to solve this problem with the fonts. i had tried alot of suggestions found on the web and only your hint helped.
just a note: I use Centos 5.8 and my files where not pfa, but pfb, so this worked:
%/Courier /NimbusMonL-Regu ;
/Courier (n022003l.pfb) ;
% /Courier-Bold /NimbusMonL-Bold ;
/Courier-Bold (n022004l.pfb) ;
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