Spool File Page Counter SDK is a royalty free SDK to count pages for Postscript, PS and PCL files

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Spool File Page Counter SDK

Spool File Page Counter SDK is also named "PS and PCL Page Counter SDK", it is a SDK product to count the pages in PDF, PS and PCL files, it is useful for printer accounting software. Spool File Page Counter SDK can count the pages in PCL3/4/5, PCL5e, PCL5c, PCL-XL (PCL6), Postscript (PS), EPS, PRN, SPL, PXL, PDF etc. document formats.

Spool File Page Counter SDK is can also count the black and white pages and color pages in these document formats.

Spool File Page Counter SDK offers a powerful solution to count the pages in Spool Documents. This product is available via an easily integrated COM object (or DLL Library, or Command Line), enabling developers to access the toolkit via any programming or scripting languages, such as Visual Basic, C/C++, Delphi, ASP, PHP, C#, .NET, etc. Using the COM object (or DLL Library, or Command Line), the function can be done consecutively or simultaneously.

Spool File Page Counter SDK supports following formats:

1. PCL - Printer Command Language, PCL3/4/5, PCL6, PCL5c, PCL5e, PCL-XL, PCLXL

2. SPL - Microsoft Windows Spool File Format

3. PostScript (PS) - PostScript Level 1, PostScript Level 2, PostScript 3

4. EPS - Encapsulated PostScript

5. PRN - Print file, a PRN file is a special type of file which contains instructions for a printer.

6. PDF - Adobe Acrobat PDF format

Price List:

Product Name	Number of Licenses	Price per License	Download	Purchase
Spool File Page Counter SDK v2.0	1 Server License	USD$299

Spool File Page Counter SDK v2.0	1 Developer License	USD$2499

One Year Gold Support	1 Year	USD$1200

Server License: Licensed by per Production Server, easily to be called from ASP/PHP/C#/.NET/... etc. server side applications.
Developer License: Licensed by per Developer, Royalty Free Runtime Desktop Distribution, can be run on any number of servers/computers.
Please read the full licensing agreement for more information.

Key Features:

Supports PCL3, PCL3GUI, PCL4, PCL5, PCL5e, PCL5c, PCL6 / PCL XL formats.

Supports Postscript, PS, EPS formats.

Supports Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Count black and white pages and color pages in spool documents.

Retrieve "copy" value from PCL and PS files.

Retrieve paper width, paper height and paper size name from PCL and PS files.

Support Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, 7, and later systems, both 32bit and 64bit versions.

Spool File Page Counter SDK can be called from C#, C++, VB, Delphi, VB.NET, etc. program languages.

Spool File Page Counter SDK Examples:

Private Declare Function ReadInfoFromPSFile Lib "ReadInfo.dll" (ByVal fileName As String, ByVal bIsRenderToPDF As Integer, ByRef bwPageCount As Integer, ByRef colorPageCount As Integer, ByRef copyCount As Integer, ByRef pagewidth As Double, ByRef pageheight As Double, ByVal paperSizeName As String) As Integer

Private Declare Function ReadInfoFromPCLFile Lib "ReadInfo.dll" (ByVal fileName As String, ByVal bIsRenderToPDF As Integer, ByRef bwPageCount As Integer, ByRef colorPageCount As Integer, ByRef copyCount As Integer, ByRef pagewidth As Double, ByRef pageheight As Double, ByVal paperSizeName As String) As Integer

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim bIsRenderToPDF As Integer
Dim bwPageCount As Integer
Dim colorPageCount As Integer
Dim copyCount As Integer
Dim nPageWidth As Double
Dim nPageHeight As Double
Dim strPaperSizeName As String
Dim nRet As Integer
Dim strMsg As String
Dim strFileName As String

bIsRenderToPDF = 0
bwPageCount = 0
colorPageCount = 0
copyCount = 0
nPageWidth = 0
nPageHeight = 0
strPaperSizeName = Space$(300)
strFileName = Application.StartupPath() & "\test_tiger.eps"
nRet = ReadInfoFromPSFile(strFileName, bIsRenderToPDF, bwPageCount,
colorPageCount, copyCount, nPageWidth, nPageHeight, strPaperSizeName)

strMsg = strMsg + "FileName = " + strFileName + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "bIsRenderToPDF = " + CStr(bIsRenderToPDF) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "bwPageCount = " + CStr(bwPageCount) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "colorPageCount = " + CStr(colorPageCount) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "copyCount = " + CStr(copyCount) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "PageWidth = " + CStr(nPageWidth) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "PageHeight = " + CStr(nPageHeight) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "PaperSizeName = " + CStr(strPaperSizeName) + vbCrLf
MsgBox(strMsg)

strFileName = Application.StartupPath() & "\test_grid.pcl"
nRet = ReadInfoFromPCLFile(strFileName, bIsRenderToPDF, bwPageCount,
colorPageCount, copyCount, nPageWidth, nPageHeight, strPaperSizeName)

strMsg = ""
strMsg = strMsg + "FileName = " + strFileName + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "bIsRenderToPDF = " + CStr(bIsRenderToPDF) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "bwPageCount = " + CStr(bwPageCount) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "colorPageCount = " + CStr(colorPageCount) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "copyCount = " + CStr(copyCount) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "PageWidth = " + CStr(nPageWidth) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "PageHeight = " + CStr(nPageHeight) + vbCrLf
strMsg = strMsg + "PaperSizeName = " + CStr(strPaperSizeName) + vbCrLf
MsgBox(strMsg)
End Sub

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