From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T18:48:26+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Count pages in a word document

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Heesob Park <phasis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/12/12 Talib Hussain <talibhn@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you let me know how can I count the no. of pages in a Word
>> document using Ruby?
>>
> Try this:
>
> require 'win32ole'
> word = WIN32OLE.new('word.application')
> file = 'c:/work/test.doc'
> doc = word.documents.open(file,'ReadOnly' => true)
> page = doc.ComputeStatistics(2)   # wdStatisticPages = 2
> word.activedocument.close(false)
> word.quit
> puts page
>
>
> HTH,

I have found: http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/ to be a great
resource for these kinds of things.
Well worth a look if you are stuck on similar problems.