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- From: harding@sun444.nas.nasa.gov (Steve Harding)
- Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to get a page count?
- Keywords: FBC pagecount
- References: <1993Jan8.185833.15597@meadow.uucp>
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- Organization: NASA/Ames Research Center
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:28:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.185833.15597@meadow.uucp> nzr20@meadow.UUCP (Nicholas Russon) writes:
- >We've got a large number of book files, each with several chapter
- >files of varying length, all using folio-by-chapter numbering
- >(page 1-2 follows 1-1, Chapter two pages are numbered 2-1, 2-2, etc.).
- >
- >We need to get estimates on-the-fly for the page count for an arbitrary
- >set of these books, in order to plan binder sizes, etc.
- >
- >We can figure out the manual method (open each file, check number of
- >pages, add to running total), but we're hoping there's an easier way.
- >
- >Does anyone have a suggestion?
-
- Seems to me, the obvious answer is to generate a table of contents and
- total the pages.
-
- steve
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