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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Finding out the real page counter.
- Message-ID: <3997@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:10:59 GMT
- References: <2600@irit.irit.fr>
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
- Lines: 17
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- In article <2600@irit.irit.fr> stolte@irit.irit.fr (Nilo STOLTE) writes:
- ><somebody said>
- >>>problem. (I.e. a program that determines the number of pages in a any
- >>>given PS-file)
-
- > Simply count the number of "%%Page:" that there is in your PostScript file. You
- >can write easily a program to do that...
-
- Please read the PostScript FAQ. This doesn't work, in general, because
- not all PostScript has %%Page: comments in them.
-
- The original poster should be able to delay the pagecount evaluation until
- end of the job.
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