[CentOS] Command line tool to display number of pages in a PostScript document?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Sep 8 00:12:54 UTC 2009


At Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:35:08 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to get the number of pages contained in a
> > PostScript document, so I can use it in a script.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> One quick and dirty method will be to count the word "showpage' that
> is not commented out.  But this may not give you an accurate number of
> pages (some aliases might be used).

Does this help:

sauron.deepsoft.com% psselect -r <TypemapsEven.ps >/dev/null
[9] [8] [7] [6] [5] [4] [3] [2] [1] Wrote 9 pages, 480115 bytes

Or this:

sauron.deepsoft.com% grep '^%%Pages' TypemapsEven.ps 
%%Pages: (atend)
%%Pages: 9

(These methods assume that the PS file has the proper DSC comments.)



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