Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript page counter? Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 21:57:23 GMT References: <1990Jul26.173633.13911@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990Jul30.153325.15342@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 12 In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 30 Jul 90 15:33:25 GMT In article <1990Jul30.153325.15342@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >The usual technique is to read the printer's page count before and after, >and subtract -- *it* knows how many pages it printed. Which is great for collecting usage information, but something I've been considering is changing my spooler to redefine showpage before each file is sent to the printer, aborting if it attempts to print more than X pages. Nice when you have students who send their output to a printer without checking first. -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)