PostScript page count filter for Unix

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From: McEWAN Shane
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 06:43

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G'day! In recent weeks I've been given the task of gathering accounting
information about our PostScript laser printers attached to our central
server here. Ideally I'd like to keep a record of the number of pages each
job prints.

I was wondering if anyone has written a program that will read
through a PostScript file looking for "showpage" as well as any macros that
include a showpage command.

That's the tricky bit.....you need to effectively write a mini PostScript
interpreter which is something I'm not quite up to, yet. *sigh*

Any hints, tips and tricks (or even full blown solutions ;-) will be much
appreciated.

Catchya!
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  Shane McEwan     CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research    spm@dar.csiro.au
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From: spm@dar.csiro.au (McEWAN Shane)
Subject: PostScript page count filter for Unix
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