Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Michael Unger Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: getting system information from a PS program Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:55:40 +0100 Organization: not that I'm aware of ... Lines: 31 Message-ID: <9odf8dFuk1U3@mid.individual.net> References: <9nr4ecF33kU1@mid.individual.net> <7c274e80-d66c-4b27-aa13-2637afe05e9f@cf6g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9o5gj6Fg78U1@mid.individual.net> <9o87h2F8tgU1@mid.individual.net> <9oapr0Fr8sU1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: 2012Q1.usenet.michaelunger@spamgourmet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: individual.net bTLUAgYI9d2Dp3iancBITg0Tc1nSEDJ3QChA5Na0pgAD3gLBDd Cancel-Lock: sha1:JpdkcwVFASWKjKMtObjas0cO1MA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:596 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 =91status=92 operator - for this versi= on > of Distiller, running on Win98SE - returns the =91last modified [not > creation] time=92 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 --=20 Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid.