Color pages information from postscript file

Question

I have a postscript file made from a printer driver.

Is there any way we can distinguish between color and b/w pages, i.e to get count of number of colored and B/W pages in the postscript file.

I found on inet that postscript operators setrgbcolor and setcmykcolor give color information

but i wasn't able to find operators setrgbcolor and setcmykcolor in my postscript file.

Dov Isaacs · Answer

Most actual PostScript operators are actually hidden in PostScript files via use of procedures defined at the beginning of the PostScript file. For better or worse, most PostScript drivers and applications that natively generate PostScript work this way. Thus, unless you actually interpret the entire file, you cannot readily determine any color operations are invoked. Plus, a "black and white page" can be represented as grayscale, CMYK where (0,0,0,K), and separation black. Depending upon the particular PostScript implementation, R=G=B is often interpreted as grayscale as well.

- Dov

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