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In article <Bv7H2A.6Kt@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
<Are there any programs that will take a postscript file as input
<and return the number of pages?  I know this is non-trivial, and
<yes, I know I can count pages by getting the page count from the
<printer before and after printing a document, but I need a way to
<predict how many pages a printjob is going to take in advance.

Gee, here we go again :-)

If the PostScript file is DSC compliant, just grep for "Pages:"

If the document is not DSC compliant, then no it isn't easy.  You have to
interpret the PostScript program and have it report to you a page count.
I think someone mentioned that GhostScript might work for that.

But, keep in mind that someone could send a single line piece of PostScript
code to the printer that could print a different number of pages each time
it is executed.
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