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From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Number of pages of dvi-file
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Date: 2 Aug 90 06:34:55 GMT
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I have HP's DeskJet PLUS with font RAM. I have dvidj DVI driver, which can
generate DeskJet fonts, so it prints quite fast, but only on the first page;
rest pages are garbage.  Problem has something to do with incompability of
fonts between DeskJet and DeskJet PLUS. So, I use dviselect, which can get
pages from dvi-file and generate new, to take one page at a time, and print
it with dvidj.

Yesterday  I wrote a program, which calls dviselect and dvidj for each page
of the dvi-file. Here is the problem: how can I get the number of pages from
the dvi-file ? (I tried to get code from dvitops's sources, but something
went wrong, since it told that ~20 page dvifile has 254000 pages!)

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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland