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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: postscript accounting
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:52:12 GMT
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In article <1475@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
=>In article <YXOC.91Mar8143905@fb14vax.cs.uni-sb.de> yxoc@cs.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen) writes:
=><We are going to buy a postscript printer and would like to monitor the
=><usage of the printer. For this purpose we would like to have a tool that
=><is able to count the pages of a postscript file. Does this make any sense
=><to you? Can you tell me how to write/get such a thing?
=>
=>What you will have to do is send out a piece of code that will determine the
=>numbers of pages printed so far, send the PostScript file and ask the printer
=>the same question again.  Subtract the two numbers and you are all set.
=>This information is available in the statusdict.  See the manual for the
=>printer to determine the PostScript procedures available to pull the number
=>of pages printed so far.  I don't have the QMS PS-810 manual here at home
=>and the LaserWriter IINT manual doesn't contain this info, otherwise I
=>post a little piece of code to fetch the page number.

Well here you've got a little problem. I'm planing to hook a HP-LJ II with
PS-cartridge to an Apollo-workstation. And this through the parallel port.
This'll get me some performance for those wanting to use PCL and bitmaps.

This make it imposible to get info from the printer. I know that this is
stupid, since the printer could return info on print jobs. But then this
is the way it's going to be.

Knowing this, is there an Unix accounting filter for PS.

Regards,
		Willem jan Withagen.

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