When I try to run hylfax setup I get: Warning: /usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font does not exist or is not a directory! The directory /usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font does not exist or this file is not a directory. This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for submission as facsimile. Without this information HylaFAX may generate illegible facsimile from ASCII text. How to resolve missing fonts? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.faxsetup 2. 3. Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j6 -l8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/voip /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.103/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg kde kpathsea ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetex thunar tiff truetype type1 unicode usb vorbis x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It seems to me the simple solution would be to create a symlink: ln -s /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript /usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/Resource/Font Though, it would be nice if it was done by ebuild.
Most probably just a configuration problem. The fonts, it's most probably looking for, are those in /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript.
Yes, these are the fonts, I guess ghostscript change the location but not hylafax yet; so making simple link solved the problem. But I'm not sure if it is a gentoo setup that change the font location or ghostscript. If it is ghostscript I'll report this to hylafax.
Are you sure hylafax doesn't let you configure that path ?
It seems to me this issue dates back to 2008 or earlier. I've found post on hylfax forum somebody was asking/reporting the same thing: --------copy----------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:27:49 +0200 From: Giuliano David <g.david@vlk.it> To: breedish <breedish@yandex.ru> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Ghostscript fonts User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080502) My suggestion is to install Ghostscript before. THEN re-compile and re-install Hylafax. It solved the problem for me. Hope it helps giuliano breedish wrote: > When I am trying to setup hylafax via faxsetup everytime such message appears: > Warning: /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a directory! > I download and install ghostscript 8.15 but the structure of > /usr/share/ghostscript is /usr/share/ghostscript/8.15/ and there is > no fonts directory. Where can I download fonts and Is this very > important if I want to send PDF file ? > > Thanks. -----------end copy----------- I've tired that order: emerge ghostscirpt emerge hylafax makes no difference hylafax still complain about missing font, making symlink solved. I don't think hylafax has any setting when it comes to ghostscript fonts. running from: /var/spool/fax/config find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F "ghostscript' find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F "gv' is not showing any relevant entries. It seems to me ghostscript is not reporting correctly the font or hylafax can not find them :-/ I'll try to ask on hylafax forum. Pozdrowiena.
The config settings are a bit non-obvious - it's FontMap and FontPath in hyla.conf
Is this still a problem with current ghostscript? If yes, which version?
No reply for half a year.
I'm not sure how it is related to ghostscript but Gentoo font are complete mess. I've installed "flpsed" and the scaling of fonts in that package did not work at all. It compiled OK, no errors but for some reason or another the fonts on the screen only showed 8pts even if I selected 24pts. Installing an additional fonts solved that issue. Here are the fonts are have installed: dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended media-fonts/arphicfonts media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/liberation-fonts media-fonts/urw-fonts virtual/ttf-fonts x11-apps/xlsfonts x11-proto/fontsproto "flpsed" rely on ghostscript but when ghostscript couldn't find the correct fonts "flpsed" wouldn't scale fonts on the screen correctly.
(In reply to comment #9) fltk is by no means a good example in regard of font matching.
