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- From: llew@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Lok C. Lew Yan Voon)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: how many pages in a dvi file
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:03:48 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <721931672.294909.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
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- In article <721931672.294909.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
- >we frequently receive dvi files that are to be printed on one of
- >our typesetters. it would be quite useful to be able to determine
- >quickly how many pages are in a particular dvi file.
- >
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- there's probably a direct answer to that. however, for an ignorant
- like me, i'd either use a dvi previewer (like xdvi or view) and count,
- or use dvips to convert dvi -> (a redundant) ps file, but in the
- process, dvips counts the no. of pages for me.
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