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In article <86579@ut-emx.uucp>, tai@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Tai Morris) writes:
|> I'm new to this newsgroup so I hope this question hasn't been answered
|> too many times already...
|> 
|> I need a program that parses a postscript file to see how many pages will
|> be printed. Please don't tell me this is impossible - it's impossible that
|> it is impossible because postscript printers know how to parse postscript
|> files. Otherwise, the printer could be fooled, too.
|> 
|> Any help would be appreciated.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Tai Morris, tai@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu

One thing you can do is to include postscript code at the beginning and the end
of a document to be printed, which show the value of the internal page counter of
the printer.
Unfortunately i have forgotten the code sequence neccessary to do this (look at
the manuals), but it works.

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