Re: getting system information from a PS program

From	Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: getting system information from a PS program
Date	2012-01-26 17:55 +0100
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On 2012-01-25 20:27, "SaGS" wrote:

> I only had at hand an install of Acrobat Distiller (*gulp*) 4.05 to
> check, and this version indeed does not implement the %Calendar%
> device. (In another reply, Helge Blischke already wrote how to find
> out if %Calendar% is available or not.)

Definitely no luck at all, there is _no_ %Calendar% device available --
see my reply to Helge's posting for details.

> The other method I mentioned, using the timestamp of a temp file,
> worked. From my experiments, the ‘status’ operator - for this version
> of Distiller, running on Win98SE - returns the ‘last modified [not
> creation] time’ as the number of seconds elapsed since 1970/01/01
> 00:00:00 UTC+00:00. So you will have to do some calendar + timezone +
> DST calculations.

That's way too much work for the intended purpose. Distiller fills in
the "creation" and "modification" fields in the PDF metadata giving
start and end date/time of the creation process. That has to be
sufficient now.

> [...]

Michael

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getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-19 19:01 +0100
  Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 11:05 -0800
    Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 07:03 -0800
      Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-23 17:16 +0100
        Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-24 17:33 +0100
          Re: getting system information from a PS program Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> - 2012-01-24 18:10 -0700
            Re: getting system information from a PS program tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-01-25 04:57 -0500
            Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-25 17:39 +0100
              Re: getting system information from a PS program Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-01-25 18:08 +0100
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-26 17:52 +0100
              Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 11:27 -0800
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-26 17:55 +0100
          Re: getting system information from a PS program Marc Olschok <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-01-25 20:07 +0000
            Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-26 17:57 +0100
              Re: getting system information from a PS program Marc Olschok <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-02-02 15:46 +0000
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-02-02 18:16 +0100
                Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-02-02 21:52 +0100
                Re: getting system information from a PS program luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-04 20:15 -0800
    Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-23 17:26 +0100
      Re: getting system information from a PS program SaGS <sags5495@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 12:18 -0800
        Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-24 17:46 +0100
  Re: getting system information from a PS program bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-01-23 03:26 -0600
    Re: getting system information from a PS program Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-23 17:31 +0100

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