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From: savundar@hdss46.houston.nam.slb.com (P Savundararaj)
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Subject: Re: Page counting
Date: 18 Aug 93 15:30:17
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In-reply-to: brown@vidiot.UUCP's message of 18 Aug 93 06:50:04 GMT
On 18 Aug 93 06:50:04 GMT,
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) said:
Vidiot> In article <24oagv$ecp@hecate.umd.edu> matt@bss1.umd.edu writes:
Vidiot> <
Vidiot> <Does anyone know of a way to take a postscript file and determine
Vidiot> <how many pages it will be? Can the Gnu Ghostscript program do this?
Vidiot> <or would it be possible to send the Postscript job to the printer, and
Vidiot> <have the printer NOT print it, but respond with the number of pages
Vidiot> <that would be printed? Any other possibilities??? Thanks in advance
Vidiot> <for any help.
Vidiot> Your closest possibility will be GhostScript. But that is a manual operation.
Vidiot> I think someone has something that can be used with GhostScript and have GS
Vidiot> give the page count.
Vidiot> But, a single line piece of PostScript code could result in a different
Vidiot> number of pages being printed with each run. Yes, this is the extreme,
Vidiot> but it is possible.
Vidiot> As for doing it in the printer, the showpage operator could be redefined to
Vidiot> just could pages. I never thought of doing that before. Interesting thought.
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In article <5830@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
I think there is another way to do this. Get the "psutils" packages by
Angus Duggan.
On of the utilities in this package "pstops" performs general page
rearrangement and selection; you can use it to get a page count also - kind
of crude, but works.
Also it has many other goodies.
Below is the README file for that package:
-------------------- Include file --------------------
PostScript Utilities Angus Duggan 7 June 1993
This shar file contains some utilities for manipulating PostScript documents.
Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement into
signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing.
ENVIRONMENT
These utilities have been compiled and run on Sun-3 and Sun-4 machines under
SunOS 5.1 (Solaris 2.1), 4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1 and 4.0.1, HP9000/375 machines
under HPUX 7.0 and HPUX 8.0, Sequent Symmetry machines under Dynix 3.1.4
and PTX 3.2.0, IBM RS/6000, VAX/VMS and Decstation 3100 machines under Ultrix
4.0.
FILES
The files contained are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1945 Jun 7 15:40 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 3367 Jun 7 11:30 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 432 Jun 7 11:33 Manifest
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 6295 Jun 7 15:40 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1864 Jun 5 16:31 descrip.mms
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 4431 Jun 5 11:05 epsffit.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1045 Jun 7 11:01 epsffit.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 538 Apr 9 22:33 fixfmps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 419 Apr 9 17:14 fixfmps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 559 Apr 9 22:35 fixmacps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1751 Jun 7 11:30 fixmacps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 564 Apr 9 22:35 fixpsditps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 596 Apr 9 17:15 fixpsditps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 533 Apr 9 22:35 fixpspps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1236 Apr 9 17:15 fixpspps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 551 Apr 9 22:32 fixtpps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 602 Apr 9 22:31 fixtpps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 556 Apr 9 22:36 fixwfwps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 318 Apr 9 17:15 fixwfwps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 544 Apr 9 22:36 fixwpps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 669 May 5 13:54 fixwpps.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 542 Apr 22 12:38 fixwwps.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 364 Apr 22 12:37 fixwwps.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 6124 Jun 7 15:25 getafm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 702 Jun 7 15:38 getafm.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 42798 May 6 09:16 md68_0.uue
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 48726 May 6 09:16 md71_0.uue
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 40 Apr 9 21:03 patchlevel.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 2155 Jun 4 15:23 psbook.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1059 Mar 31 15:33 psbook.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 6967 Jun 7 10:29 psnup.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 2578 Jun 7 11:28 psnup.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 5298 Jun 4 15:24 psselect.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 1893 Mar 31 15:33 psselect.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 6682 Jun 5 16:49 psspec.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 604 Jun 5 13:38 psspec.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 4215 Jun 5 13:04 pstops.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 3512 Jun 7 10:43 pstops.man
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 8195 Jun 5 16:43 psutil.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajcd 988 Jun 5 14:48 psutil.h
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ajcd 2552 Feb 10 12:47 showchar
PROGRAMS
psbook rearranges pages into signatures
psselect selects pages and page ranges
pstops performs general page rearrangement and selection
psnup put multiple pages per physical sheet of paper
epsffit fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box
psselect in modeled after Chris Torek's dviselect program, and pstops is
modeled after Tom Rokicki's dvidvi program. psbook is modeled on my own
dvibook program, which borrows heavily from Chris Torek's dviselect.
SCRIPTS
getafm (sh) outputs PostScript to retrieve AFM file from printer
showchar (sh) outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric info
fixfmps (perl) filter to fix framemaker documents so that psselect etc. work
fixmacps (perl) filter to fix Macintosh documents with saner version of md
fixpsditps (perl) filter to fix Transcript psdit documents to work with PSUtils
fixpspps (perl) filter to fix PSPrint PostScript so that psselect etc. work
fixtpps (perl) filter to fix Troff Tpscript documents
fixwfwps (perl) filter to fix Word for Windows documents for PSUtils
fixwpps (perl) filter to fix WordPerfect documents for PSUtils
fixwwps (perl) filter to fix Windows Write documents for PSUtils
INSTALLATION
UUdecode md71_0.uue and md68_0.uue (if supplied encoded), edit Makefile to put
in required paths and CFLAGS (-DSYSV for System V machines, -DMSDOS for
Messy-DOS, -DVMS for VMS), "make", and "make install".
BUGS
The utilities don't check for PS-Adobe-?.? conformance; they assume documents
conform. Utilities need an extra save/restore around whole document on a
SPARCPrinter with NeWSPrint 1.0, because of bugs in the xnews server.
Bug fixes and suggestions to ajcd@dcs.ed.ac.uk
NOTE
This is an interim release; these utilities are currently being re-written
from scratch, with a full DSC-3.0 parser and more extraction, merging, and
inclusion options included.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bug fixes and suggestions for improvements to PSUtils have come from many
people, including:
Brian Colfer brianc@labmed.ucsf.edu
Charles A. Finnell finnell@org.mitre.lear
Conrad Kimball cek@com.boeing.sdc
J.W.Hawtin
Jochen Schwarze schwarze@de.isa
Ken Carpenter khc@edu.ksu.eece
Kristian Jorg etxkrjg@se.ericsson.solsta
Larry Weissman larryw@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu
Michael L. Brown brown%uucp.vidiot@edu.wisc.cs
Hunter Goatley goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
John Interrante interran@uluru.Stanford.edu
Maurizio Cremonesi MAUCREM@imiclvx.earn
Matthew Stier Matthew.Stier@East.Sun.com
Gerry Pratt cca13@seq1.kl.ac.uk
Robert Joop rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de
(Apologies to anyone who I have left out.)
NEWS
Patchlevel 11 contains some significant enhancements to PSUtils, in
preparation for the eventual release of version 2 (don't hold your breath
waiting for it). These include:
* Specify paper sizes by name for pstops and psnup.
* Psnup re-written in C to be much more versatile (do any number n-up).
* Epsffit can input broken %%BoundingBox comments which use real numbers.
* Should work on MSDOS and VMS machines as well as Unix.
* Accept more DSC compliant documents (Page labels are better supported).
-------------------- End include file --------------------
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