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by: iyoshipom November 29, 2012 7:06 AM PST

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File name and page counter?

by iyoshipom - 11/29/12 7:06 AM

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I'm looking for an application or program that will return me all the file names and how many pages each file has. A lot like the Tiff counter, but for all files not just PDFs. Does anyone know of anything that'll do this?

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The problem is deeper that you think.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 11/29/12 7:18 AM

In Reply to: File name and page counter? by iyoshipom

For example a Word document may vary by a page on one printer to the next so a page count would be off. Such an app could be made but as it may take days to process files for your printer it looks like there is little incentive for a software author to create something that the very first bug would be from folk complaining the page count is wrong.

Are you aware how Word re-formats documents as you open it on one or another PC? Without that knowledge I can see why folk would think this could be done.
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PS. Example links about the incorrect count issue.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 11/29/12 6:32 PM

In Reply to: The problem is deeper that you think. by R. Proffitt Moderator

http://superuser.com/questions/403672/how-to-count-pages-in-multiple-pdf-files shows how we can get that done for PDFs.

HOWEVER, you can imagine Word is going to be a PITA. Yup. Read
http://www.davescomputertips.com/forum/microsoft-word/word-document-files-page-count-defeats-windows-explorer/

Given the issues, no company I know could sell such an app.
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Well, that does make sense.

by iyoshipom - 12/6/12 1:30 AM

In Reply to: PS. Example links about the incorrect count issue. by R. Proffitt Moderator

Thank you for replying, it's a shame such a thing doesn't exist but I can see why now. At the moment I'm manually checking and copying the page count across myself anyway, so even if it just returned the page count according to my printer settings and formatting it would only be doing what I'm having to do. Wish there was one, it would save me a LOT of time!


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