Re: Finding out the real page counter.

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:10

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In article <2600@irit.irit.fr> stolte@irit.irit.fr (Nilo STOLTE) writes:
><somebody said>
>>>problem. (I.e. a program that determines the number of pages in a any
>>>given PS-file)

>  Simply count the number of "%%Page:" that there is in your PostScript file. You
>can write easily a program to do that...

Please read the PostScript FAQ.  This doesn't work, in general, because
not all PostScript has %%Page: comments in them.

The original poster should be able to delay the pagecount evaluation until
end of the job.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Finding out the real page counter.
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Date: 17 Nov 92 02:10:59 GMT
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