ned.freed@innosoft.com
Mon, 07 Feb 2000 11:52:31 -0800 (PST)
> > How would you calculate the number of pages in a binary
> > document, e.g. a
> > Word document?
> It is true that division to pages depends on printer settings. However Word
> does keep suh an information based on system default ptrinter within
> document header. My proposal is to move this param into MIME headers. Also
> for faxes this division is fixed and does not vary between clients
Not really. The length of a FAX page is variable and can be very long in
practice. And different printers handle this situation very differently -- old
machines that use roll paper simply use as much paper as they need, whereas
machines using cut paper sometimes scale and sometimes use multiple pages.
In general all you can do is put the number of FAX pages in the header. The
number of printer pages may or may not be the same.
BTW, don't assume that long FAX pages are uncommon -- I've seen plenty of
FAX setups where nothing but long pages are produced.
Ned
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