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From: amichiel@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Allen J Michielsen)
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Subject: Re: Counting PostScript Pages
Keywords: postscript, accounting
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Date: 15 Mar 91 19:18:37 GMT
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<9103141524.AA00940@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> kludge@GRISSOM.LARC.NASA.GOV 
(Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <9103132037.AA25632@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> jlg@UNCCVAX.UNCC.EDU 
(john l grant) writes:
>>Does anyone have a filter program that will count Postscript
>>pages before the file goes to the printer?  I've taken a quick 

>how about
>   egrep showpage | wc -l
>Crude but fairly efficient.

I don't suppose this crude but fairly efficient model works too well when
using copypage or when showpage has been logically defined as sp or when
.....
al



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