RE: Finding out the real page counter.

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3 total messages Started by Nilo STOLTE Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:15

#5670

Author: Nilo STOLTE
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:15

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Hi antoon!
You say:
...
>>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...

Nilo.

Re: Finding out the real page counter.

#5693

Author: 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.
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Re: Finding out the real page counter.

#5696

Author: Sean Lamont
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:59

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In article <2600@irit.irit.fr> stolte@irit.irit.fr (Nilo STOLTE) writes:
>Hi antoon!
>You say:
>...
>>>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...

this is assuming that the document follows proper DSC. Consider the following

%!PS
/Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto (spam) show
showpage

This has no instances of %Page in the document, and yet it will print on
99% of the valid postscript devices out there.





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