Re: Page Width..Still a problem

[Phil Abercrombie <phil@comp.vuw.ac.nz>]

"Andrew S. Howell" <andy@tibco.com> writes:

> I've been trying to get FrameMaker ps docs to work. For some other
> files, someone mentioned using FIXEDMEDIA in ps2fax. Tried this, but
> then the FrameMaker doc spits out a message that it can't set the page
> size. I think I need to use setpagedevice to silently ignore the page
> size change request, but I'm not sure how to do this. Maybe I need to
> read Adobe's PostScript Languge Reference Manual 15 more times and it
> will sink in....
> 
> Anyone have any clues ? 


We hit this problem trying to send FrameMaker documents too.  I made
the following minimal change to ps2fax.gs, which causes setpagedevice
silently to ignore absolutely everything.  Possibly overkill, but it
made that problem go away for good.

I hope a ghostscript expert out there will tell us what we _ought_ to
do.


# <PJA> 16-Jul-1996
# This sed makes setpagedevice a no-op so that 
# postscript from frame can be faxed without trouble
# (It had been explicity setting the page to A4 size, which 
# caused the tiff driver to output shorter scanlines).

$CAT $fil |
$SED -e '1 i\
/setpagedevice {pop} def
' |
 $PS -q \
    -sDEVICE=$device \
    -dNOPAUSE \
    -dSAFER=true \
    -sPAPERSIZE=$paper \
    -r204x$vres \
    "-sOutputFile=$out" \
    -