>Hi !!!
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>Is anybody have an idea to check the properties or count the numbers of pages of the different files formats ( ie DOC, XLS, BMP, HTML, PDF, etc)
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>Thanks in advance
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>Ravi Mehrotra

I don't think there is a systematic, simple, way to handle all the different file formats, unless you find a program that can actually open all those formats. But, for example, I don't think it would be a good idea to open a Word document in Excel, or an Excel document in Word.

For some of those formats, you can use Automation to open those files in Word, or in Excel, for instance, and then look for the function that tells you how many pages there are in total. I don't know which function this is, but Automation is the way to go.

This might work for DOC (Word), XLS (Excel), HTML (Word) - and I don't know whether Word can be made to open PDF files.

I don't think that Adobe Acrobat Reader can be automated; perhaps Adobe Acrobat can - I am not sure - but that would require a license of Adobe Acrobat.

With what program would you want to open BMP? If you open it in Word, the picture will always fit on a single page, i.e., it is automatically scaled.

On the other hand, you can get properties of an image (like BMP, JPG, GIF... and whatever other formats are supported in VFP 9) with an "Image" object. After create the "Image" object and loading an image, you can get its Height and Width properties.

HTH,

Hilmar.