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From: pollack@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Jordan B Pollack)
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Subject: Re: Counting PostScript Pages
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Date: 17 Mar 91 13:30:54 GMT
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STATIC counting of showpage will not work, because it if often used
once, in a definition like "P" or "E".  "Conforming" postscript can be
counted with "%%Page", but tricky users who don't wish to pay $.15 per
page will delete them.

The best way is to use a postscript interpreter, or an old laserwriter
printer, with a program like the "distillery" which redefines every
drawing primitive and just counts DYNAMIC calls to showpage.

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Jordan Pollack                            Assistant Professor
CIS Dept/OSU                              Laboratory for AI Research
2036 Neil Ave                             Email: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu
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