Problems on sending to a Toshiba fax machine

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:16:15 +0200


Hi,

Robert Colquhoun wrote:
> >Ghostscript, when fed a "setpagedevice" command for a different page width
> >than the default, will happily create pages with a different line width,
[..]
> 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

-dFIXEDMEDIA is news to me.  Where can I find documentation for that?

-sPAGESIZE=a4 will help -- *if* the setpagedevice command specifies A4
dimensions, but break things for documents with letter dimensions,
obviously... :-(

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

Looks certainly promising!

gert
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