Page Count of a .PS by color or B&W

[jeffny]

I need to be able to determine the page count ( through an automated script ) of a .PS file, but to make it challenging I need a count of Black & White pages and a count of color pages.

Was hoping someone had done this through imagemagik and prevent me from digging through and learning Postscript at the inerpreter level. Something I want to avoid at all costs.

Can anyone help?

[fmw42]

you will likely need to write a script to output each page, then test the color statistics on each page to see if (r=g=b for grayscale) from the verbose information (identify -verbose info: ...) or check the type (bilevel, grayscale, truecolor).

[jeffny]

When you say output each page, you mean to a pdf I presume?

Will the Indentify command work on a postscript, or do I have to use PDF? ( or another format ).

Unfortunately I really need a way to rip this information from a .ps without having to rip (or output) individual pages. Looking to do this on a mass scale as things are printed in bulk.

Thanks for the help regardless.

[fmw42]

Only other help I can give is to refer you to the following:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#ps
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#pdf