<h1>Error: missing font metrics file</h1> <p> Font 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 in 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 the Ghostscript itself). </p> <table> <tr class="odd"> <th width="20%">Problem</th><th>Solution</th> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td>Metric files are not installed on your server</td> <td> Install either ghostscript-fonts or any other Type1 font package containing metric files. Edit .html2ps.config and config.inc.php to point to installed metric files. </td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td>The <tt>TYPE1_FONTS_REPOSITORY</tt> points to incorrect directory.</td> <td>Edit config.inc.php; set the value of <tt>TYPE1_FONTS_REPOSITORY</tt> to directory where your font metric files reside.</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td>You have no requested metric file.</td> <td> Probably you're using non-standard font package. HTML2PS is configured to work with fonts distributed with Ghostscript out-of-the-box. If you're using other fonts, edit .html2ps.config. <tt>metrics</tt> items should contain names of metric files you're using. </td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td>You've forgot to register the AFM metric file for this font.</td> <td> Register the metric file according to the <a href="help/howto_fonts.html">HOWTO: Install custom fonts</a>. </td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td>AFM file is not readable by the script.</td> <td> Check if AFM file permissions allow this file to be read by all user accouts (or, at least, the user accout PHP is running on). </td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <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> <td> Copy AFM files to any available directory under the 'open_base_dir'. An alternative approach is to disable 'safe_mode'. </td> </tr> </table>