Does anyone know how to get a page count for docs other than PDFs? Like how about word docs?

Normally, if you have a .doc open in MS Word or another office application like LibreOffice, there is a status bar at the bottom of the window. At the left side in Libre is the page count, for example: Page 1 of 7 Can't recall if it is exactly the same in Word, but certainly somewhere on that status bar.

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You want to do it programatically or interactively?

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Wow, I also just realized how poorly stated my original question was, I apologize for the confusion.

With that said, thank you SrDorothy and catkin for your replies. I often deal with directories with hundreds or thousands of files in them of varied file types. Opening each one is not viable in my case, which is why I am wondering if there is something like xpdf or pdfinfo that works for text files, word files, and maybe, hopefully, spreadsheets.

So, what I want to be able to do is to run a script or series commands that will give the a total page count of all files in a directory, regardless of file type. That script would, therefore, probably include programs like xpdf or pdfinfo.


Thanks again!

actually you can change the number of pages by changing the font or margin, so I think you need to open the file and evaluate the content somehow. Maybe perl can help you, there are some modules to open documents and spreadsheets (either openoffice or MS office)

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I doubt you can do it for spreadsheets since I don't think "page"means anything uuntil you come to print out and select print areas, and sometimes spreadsheets contain hidden cells or large areas of nothing. That and you could have any nmber of tabs.

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Use the command line interface for LibreOffice to accomplish this.

The brute force method is to use the example shown, exporting the document as PDF to a temporary file, then count the number of pages in it. It should work, but it does feel more than a bit clunky.

You might be able to write a macro that uses the print preview function to find out the number of pages, without generating any temporary files. Check out the documentation. You should be able to run that macro similar to the example, getting the page count directly.

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pan64 & 273: I actually have a macro that formats .xls files for printing and gets rid of blank space, I think it leaves the fonts alone so maybe I just need to find a way to expand on that to output the page count once it has formatted it.


Nominal: I saw some documentation here that might help: http://ask.libreoffice.org/question/...om-the-command


But I haven't checked it out yet.

Maybe the best approach is to use each file type's associated program to print to file and then analyse that file for the page count.

Google: word vba page count.

Result:

http://www.techtalkz.com/microsoft-o...tml#post360319

With the Word VBA macro language, you can do the rest (iteratively open each file in the directory, get their page counts, add it to the total) entirely from Word.