Re: flexfax: Begging suggestions on "document page width" errors

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

Here a a couple of solutions that came from the list.
I suspect they are in the mail archive.

: Subject: FrameMaker ps file Solution!
: Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:44:35 JST
: From: "Andrew S. Howell" <andy@tibco.com>
: 
: I finally got FrameMaker PS documents to work with gs 4.03. This is a
: bit of a hack, but it works.
: 
: FrameMaker docs want to set there own size when they print. This
: causes problems because the page comes out 1734 pixles wide, instead
: of 1728. Fixing involves changing ps2fax to use -dFIXEDMEDIA, the tail
: end of which now look like:
: 
: a$CAT $fil | $PS -q \
:     -sDEVICE=$device \
:     -dNOPAUSE \
:     -dSAFER=true \
:     -sPAPERSIZE=$paper \
:     -dFIXEDMEDIA \
:     -r204x$vres \
:     "-sOutputFile=$out" \
:     -
: With this alone though, FrameMaker docs just spit out a message that
: they can't set the page size. I then I added the following to gs_init.ps:
: 
: % Ignore PageSize change requests. This is to make FrameMaker documents 
: % work with Hylafax. ps2fax needs -dFIXEDMEDIA as well. 
: << /Policies << /PageSize 1 >> >> setpagedevice
: 
: Since gs looks for its files in the current directory, I copied
: gs_init.ps to where I have my Hylafax installed. In my case,
: /var/spool/fax. This way my kludge won't interfere with other uses of
: gs. When ps2fax runs, the current directory is /var/spool/fax
: 
: Having done that, FrameMaker 4.0 and 5.0 documents that were formated
: for letter size come out just fine. Horraaaayyyy!
: 
: Andy
: 
: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:21:25 -0400
: From: Jon Earle <jearle@hubcc.ca>
: Subject: flexfax: FIX for the PAGEWIDTH (Pixelsize) Problem
: 
: in the PS2FAX file, modify the last portion of the script which tosses the
: file off to Ghostscript as follows:
: 
: Change the first line of this from: 
: 
: 	$CAT $fil | $PS -q \
: 
: to:
: 	$CAT $fil | $SED -e 's/dup \/PageSize \[612 792\] put//g' | $PS -q \
: 
: This removes the pagesize info from the postscript file, and all seems to
: work fine thereafter.
: 
: NOTE:  This works on OUR system which is Linux kernel 2.0.29, HylaFAX
: 4.0pl1, WHFC client .3e.  We take no responsibility if this sends obnoxious
: X-Rated faxes to the White House or other such nonsense.
: 
: Cheers!
: Jon


On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Alan Sparks wrote:

>  Think I'm losing my mind here, with these "Client does not support document
> page width, max remote page width 1728 pixels, image width 1734 pixels"
> messages!
> 
> I'm trying to send docs out of MS Word, trying a variety of PostScript
> drivers.
> I've tried at least the following:
> * HP LaserJet 4/4M PS
> * AST TurboLazer PS
> * Apple Laserwriter
> 
> Checking what's running inside of ps2fax, I am running the command (after
> variable substitution):
> 
> cat docq/doc71.ps.63  |  gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -dNOPAUSE \
>     -dSAFER=true -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r204x98  \
>     "-sOutputFile=docq/doc71.ps;00" -
> 
> I've checked script options, which seem to show that the expected dimensions
> are indeed 1728x297.
> 
> All of which leaves me with a TIFF file, about which tiffinfo says:
>     Image Width: 1734 Image Length 1078
>     Resolution: 204, 98 pixels/inch
>     Bits/Sample: 1
>     Software: "Alladin Ghostscript 5.03"
>     Group 3 Options: EOL padding (4 = 0x4)
>     ... etc ...
> 
> How the devil do you get 1728 pixels wide out of this stupid thing?
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> -Alan
> 
> ---------
> Alan Sparks, IS Engineering Support                   <asparks@harris.com>
> Harris Network Support Systems, Camarillo CA    (805) 389-2430
> 
> 
> 

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