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From: seth@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Strumph)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How do you count the number of pages in a postscript document?
Message-ID: <2002@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 01:46:57 GMT
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Reply-To: seth@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Strumph)
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as the poster of the original question, let me give a clarification
of what i was interested in.

we're trying to set up a postscript printer on which we will enforce a
weekly quota of pages.  this printer (ideally) will be accessible from
both macintoshes and unix boxes (using transcript and cap).  we would
like to be able to reject any jobs that would put the user over their
page limit, so the best possible situation would be for us to be able
to count the number of pages *before* the file gets sent to the
laserwriter.  

If anyone can help, please reply by email

Seth Strumph
seth@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu