Black stripe at the right edge of my faxes :-(

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argus@ganymed.phiger.com (Uwe S. Fuerst) writes:
>I still have the "black stripe on the right edge" problem with my faxes.
>
>This is not a mgetty problem, but I think that some of you might have run
>into this, too.  I'm using WinWord 6 under WfW 3.11 (don't laugh ;-) to
>create my faxes and I'm printing these thru the WfW Postscript Driver to
>file.  After that I'm using "faxspool" to fax the Postscript doc (this'll
>use GhostScript via its dfaxhigh driver to create the G3 pages -- I'm using
>GS262 at the moment and I've tried (almost) all possible page sizes (letter,
>A4, note, ...) -- no use).
>
>My knowledge of Postscript is to small, not to say sub-zero, to let me find
>the cause for the black stripe, but me thinks the Postscript driver of WfW
>fiddles around with the paper size params, so that the PAPERSIZE option
>given to GS may not be of interest when the G3 pages get created...

This sounds like the same problem that occurs with framemaker.  You get a
black line at the edge of the page with gs262 and the fax just plain don't
work (it is the wrong width) with gs3.  I hope Sam "Hobbes" Leffler will
pounce and correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that it is the
postscript setpagedevice operator that forces ghostscript to use an
inappropriate width when rendering these files.  Future versions of
ghostscript may robustly ignore attempts to select the paperwidth of remote
fax machines, but the problem is really in the postscript driver
overspecifying the output medium.  I haven't a clue about WinWord 6 and WfW
3.11, but you might be able to find a file somewhere, typically called
something like "prologue", that is prepended to postscript output of your
wordprocessor.  If there is a setpagedevice in there, get rid of it in a
syntactically and semantically correct way - this is where you get to learn
postscript :)

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