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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Counting the pages of a document
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.000454.12007@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jun 91 00:04:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.075659.1509@fel.tno.nl> <1941@vidiot.UUCP>
Reply-To: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <1941@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
>If the PostScript file is Document compliant, there will be information in the
>file that indicates the total number of pages.
>
There *may* be. There *usually* will be. If the relevant structure comments
are present, then they will be correct (or the document is not compliant).
But the comments are not mandatory.

Chris Thompson
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