Querying Printers

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 J.L.Gilmour at exeter.ac.uk wrote:

>
> > I made a filter with a file database for user quotas, but this involved
> > the use of postscript only printfiles (and possibly generated by Adobe
> > Postscript drivers because others tend to forget the Pages count field in
> > the postscript file, anyway when this miss a 'page' command is issued to
> > retrieve the number of pages).
>
> We've tried various techniques, but the only reliable fix is to
> query the postscript printer's page counter.

The two maybe integrated.
>
> Our main problem was powerpoint and other MS products printing 4-up,
> and our ever-creative students hand editing the postscript file to bypass
> or confuse the page counting.

Yes that's a problem with smart students, but user base are not always so
smart (...).

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