[OS X TeX] pdfinfo and calculating in an engine

[Victor Ivrii]

On 3/21/07, Friedrich Vosberg <fvosberg at mac.com> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2007 um 14.40 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
> >
> > Am 21.03.2007 um 11:16 schrieb Friedrich Vosberg:
> >
> >>   lp -P $FIRST_HALF -t engineprintout.pdf "${basefname}.pdf"
> >>
> > Definitely not this way! The UNIX utilities lp or lpr cannot count
> > PDF or PS pages. [...]
>
> Hmm, ...
>
>    lp -P 2 example.pdf

-p actually; -P is for the printername
>
> ... prints exactly what I've expected: The second page of the
> document example.pdf. So I think lp *can* count PDF pages.

In certain sense yes. But it will  *NOT* tell you

>
> Kind regards, Friedrich
>
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