FW: faxing from word 95 via gs fails miserably

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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Nasser Tarazi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have tried this on a PC . I had the Elite 2864I (2.07) connected to a PC
> with fax application from V3 Inc. called components. Then I sent a muli
> pages fax with paper size set to legal from Microsoft word 7.0 using
> Components ( windows 95 fax/data application) printer driver (the fax modem
> was Elite 2864). The fax was received correctly to the Elite 2864I modem 
> with no problem.
>
Maybe the size problem doesn't show with your fax-modem because a modem
isn't bound to a rigid paper printable width... But we usually send e-mail
to computer enabled people... IMH experience, only 'upper class' faxes are
able to fake a bigger printable size, and rescale the received data to the
regular one they can use.

lorenzo m catucci
> >
> >----------
> >From: 	Ben Stuyts
> >Sent: 	Friday, March 28, 1997 3:38:26 AM
> >To: 	mgetty@crynwr.com
> >Subject: 	faxing from word 95 via gs fails miserably
> >Auto forwarded by a Rule
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I know this is a known problem, but the suggestions in the documentation 
> >don't seem to work well for me.
> >
> >A collegue tried to send a fax from winword 95, but had the paper format
> >set 
> >to letter. The output was converted with Ghostscript 4.01 (using 
> >-sDEVICE=faxg3 -r204x196) into g3 format. Faxing went horribly wrong:

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