Re: number of pages

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From: Vidiot
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:59

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In article <1993Jan8.172822.12211@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
<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.
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<I an using:
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<grep "Page: " | wc

If the PostScript file was DSC compliant, then "grep %%Pages:" would be
enough.  If you get back nothing, then it was either a one page document
(where the %%Pages wasn't necessary) or it wasn't DSC compliant, which means
that the grep idea won't work.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: number of pages
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Date: 10 Jan 93 17:59:21 GMT
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