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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 00:01

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In article <THEWALT.90Oct19095522@canuck.ce.berkeley.edu> thewalt@canuck.ce.berkeley.edu (C. Thewalt) writes:
>Is there an easy way for me to find out the number of pages contained
>in a PostScript file?  I don't want to believe the comments, and
>showpage is often burried in some other macro, so how can this be done
>easily?

It can't be.  PostScript is too complex.

If you can't believe the comment, the only thing you can do is to run it
through a PostScript interpreter -- either in a printer or on your system --
and ask the interpreter to give you a page count.
-- 
The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
unparsable.             --Rob Pike     |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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Subject: Re: page counting
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