How to Count pages in a word document

[Talib Hussain]

Hi,

Could you let me know how can I count the no. of pages in a Word
document using Ruby?

TIA,
Talib Hussain

 

[Talib Hussain]

Hi,

Could you let me know how can I count the no. of pages in a Word
document using Ruby?

TIA,
Talib Hussain

No replies i am surprised

 

[Heesob Park]

Hi,

Hi,

Could you let me know how can I count the no. of pages in a Word
document using Ruby?

Try this:

require 'win32ole'
word = WIN32OLE.new('word.application')
file = 'c:/work/test.doc'
doc = word.documents.open(file,'ReadOnly' => true)
page = doc.ComputeStatistics(2) # wdStatisticPages = 2
word.activedocument.close(false)
word.quit
puts page


HTH,

Park Heesob

 

[Richard Conroy]

Hi,


Try this:

require 'win32ole'
word = WIN32OLE.new('word.application')
file = 'c:/work/test.doc'
doc = word.documents.open(file,'ReadOnly' => true)
page = doc.ComputeStatistics(2) # wdStatisticPages = 2
word.activedocument.close(false)
word.quit
puts page


HTH,

I have found: http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/ to be a great
resource for these kinds of things.
Well worth a look if you are stuck on similar problems.

 

[Talib Hussain]

Hi,

Thanks a lot .... This has make life easier

 

[Zhenning Guan]

Hi,

Could you let me know how can I count the no. of pages in a Word
document using Ruby?

TIA,
Talib Hussain

take a look at Ruby cookbook.