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Re: number of pages

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From: Vidiot
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 04:25
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In article <1993Jan6.163958.27417@hubcap.clemson.edu> bo@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter) writes:
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<Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction...
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<I need a program (piece of code, or whatever) that can read in a
<postscript document and print out the number of pages that WOULD 
<be printed if it were sent to the printer.
<
<If someone can tell me of the existence of such code, or can tell me 
<how I can go about writing the code myself, I would be most
<appreciative.

It's called a PostScript interpreter.  That is the only way of really knowing.
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Subject: Re: number of pages
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Date: 7 Jan 93 04:25:52 GMT
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