1<h1>Error: missing font metrics file</h1> 2<p> 3Font metric file <tt><?php echo $_filename; ?></tt> for font <strong><?php echo $_typeface?></strong> missing. You must have AFM font metric files intalled on your server 4in order to use the <b>PS</b> output method. Metric files <i>may</i> be taken from Ghostscript distribution. (Note that you do NOT need 5the Ghostscript itself). 6</p> 7<table> 8<tr class="odd"> 9<th width="20%">Problem</th><th>Solution</th> 10</tr> 11<tr class="even"> 12<td>Metric files are not installed on your server</td> 13<td> 14Install either ghostscript-fonts or any other Type1 font package containing metric files. Edit 15.html2ps.config and config.inc.php to point to installed metric files. 16</td> 17</tr> 18<tr class="odd"> 19<td>The <tt>TYPE1_FONTS_REPOSITORY</tt> points to incorrect directory.</td> 20<td>Edit config.inc.php; set the value of <tt>TYPE1_FONTS_REPOSITORY</tt> to directory where your font metric files reside.</td> 21</tr> 22<tr class="even"> 23<td>You have no requested metric file.</td> 24<td> 25Probably you're using non-standard font package. HTML2PS is configured to work with fonts distributed with Ghostscript out-of-the-box. 26If you're using other fonts, edit .html2ps.config. <tt>metrics</tt> items should contain names of metric files you're using. 27</td> 28</tr> 29<tr class="odd"> 30<td>You've forgot to register the AFM metric file for this font.</td> 31<td> 32Register the metric file according to the <a href="help/howto_fonts.html">HOWTO: Install custom fonts</a>. 33</td> 34</tr> 35<tr class="even"> 36<td>AFM file is not readable by the script.</td> 37<td> 38Check if AFM file permissions allow this file to be read by all user accouts (or, at least, the user accout PHP is running on). 39</td> 40</tr> 41<tr class="even"> 42<td>PHP safe_mode <a href="http://php.net/manual/features.safe-mode.php#ini.open-basedir">open_base_dir</a> restriction prevents AFM file to be opened.</td> 43<td> 44Copy AFM files to any available directory under the 'open_base_dir'. An alternative approach is to disable 'safe_mode'. 45</td> 46</tr> 47</table> 48