Problems on sending to a Toshiba fax machine

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Hi Gert,

At 09:41 AM 7/21/98 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>
>Uh, this is not *directly* the problem.
>
>Actually, it's the other way round: a fax page is REQUIRED to be 1728
>pixels wide.  Always.  (Unless you negotiate a different width).
>

Yes what i wrote was kind of mixed up....hopefully what follows is ok ;-)

>Ghostscript, when fed a "setpagedevice" command for a different page width
>than the default, will happily create pages with a different line width,
>and thus make G3 files that cannot be sent by fax.  (Actually, this is 
>not a bug in Ghostscript, because you might need this for A3 faxes.  I
>consider this a bug in the postscript generation program, it just should
>Not Do That, that is, send setpagedevice commands).

I think you can work around the ''setpagedevice' software if you have
ghostscript 4.0 or greater you need to specify on the command line
something like:
	gs -sDEVICE=... -sPAGESIZE=a4 -dFIXEDMEDIA myjob.ps

It should force the page to the correct width ignoring the internal
setpagedevice command.

- Robert