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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
Subject: Re: Page count of PDF file from lua
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:40:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4390BA.9000503@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120219145015.7fe6626d@homerow>

On 19-2-2012 14:50, Marco wrote:
> I can't figure out how to determine the number of pages of a PDF
> file within lua. From the TeX side it works with
> \getfiguredimensions
>
> Can somebody give me a nudge in the right direction? Example:
>
> \starttext
>
> % Works
> %\getfiguredimensions [somefile.pdf]
>
> \startluacode
> 	-- Does not work
> 	context.getfiguredimensions({"somefile.pdf"})
>
> 	local numpages = figures.get("used", "pages", 0)
> 	context(numpages)
> \stopluacode
>
> \stoptext

something

      local fig = figures.push { name = "somefile.pdf" }
      figures.identify()
      figures.check()
      local nofpages = fig.used.pages
      figures.pop()



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-19 13:50 Marco
2012-02-21 12:40 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-02-21 13:03   ` Marco
2012-02-22 13:42   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-02-22 14:34     ` Marco
2012-02-22 16:03 ` strange output in pdf when using the filter module Jan-Erik Hägglöf
2012-02-22 17:11   ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-02-22 17:15     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-02-22 18:29       ` Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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