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- From: jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Joerg Wedeck)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Page accounting
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:03:25 GMT
- Organization: "Lehrstuhl fuer Technische Informatik, Uni Tuebingen"
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- Sender: jw@peanuts (Joerg Wedeck)
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- Keywords: postscript, page, accounting
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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.
- |>
- |> Any help would be appreciated.
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> Tai Morris, tai@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu
-
- One thing you can do is to include postscript code at the beginning and the end
- of a document to be printed, which show the value of the internal page counter of
- the printer.
- Unfortunately i have forgotten the code sequence neccessary to do this (look at
- the manuals), but it works.
-
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