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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Page accounting
- Keywords: postscript, page, accounting
- Message-ID: <4817@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:21:53 GMT
- References: <86579@ut-emx.uucp>
- Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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- In article <86579@ut-emx.uucp> tai@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Tai Morris) writes:
- <I'm new to this newsgroup so I hope this question hasn't been answered
- <too many times already...
- <
- <I need a program that parses a postscript file to see how many pages will
- <be printed. Please don't tell me this is impossible - it's impossible that
- <it is impossible because postscript printers know how to parse postscript
- <files. Otherwise, the printer could be fooled, too.
-
- You are right in that this question gets asked and answered ALL the time.
-
- The only program that can give you an accurate count of pages for ALL types
- of PostScript files is a PostScript interpreter...yep, the PostScript printer.
- The only other method is to use GhostScript, another PostScript interpreter.
- I believe someone has some kind of post processing that will get the final
- page count from GhostScript.
-
- In other words, you just can't "look" at the file and find the magical page
- count buried within ALL types of PostScript files.
-
- BTW, in theory, one could write a piece of PostScript code that would print
- pages until the power failed. You'll never get a page count from that program.
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