Re: How many PDF pages? [VB6-ID2]

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From: Shane Stanley
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:37

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in article 1de72c92.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI, Dave Rowland wrote:

> Is there anyway (without using Acrobat script) to count the pages in a PDF?

You have to parse the PDF. There was a discussion here about it a long time
ago; it might be in the archives. My code is AppleScript and uses text item
delimiters, which means it probably doesn't translate to VB very well.

Essentially, you look for lines that begin with "/Type" and also contain
"/Pages", check that "/Parent" doesn't appear before the following "endobj",
and if not look for the number following "/Count".

Sounds worse than it is...

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au

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