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Launches gs less often when acroread is used to print.
v1.78 is out.

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3pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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20=============================================================================
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22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 1.78 :
25 
26    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
27      Reader.
28   
29  * 1.77 :
30 
31    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
32   
33    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
34   
35  * 1.76 :
36 
37    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
38   
39    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
40   
41  * 1.75 :
42 
43    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
44      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
45     
46  * 1.74 :
47 
48    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
49   
50    - Changed copyright years.
51   
52  * 1.73 :
53 
54    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
55   
56    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
57   
58    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
59   
60    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
61   
62  * 1.72 :
63 
64    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
65      the parsing.
66   
67  * 1.71 :
68 
69    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
70      particular MSWindows driver.
71   
72    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
73      quiet when running without Psyco.
74     
75  * 1.70 :
76 
77    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
78   
79  * 1.69 :
80 
81    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
82   
83    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
84   
85  * 1.68 :
86 
87    - Improved PostScript parser.
88   
89  * 1.67 :
90 
91    - Improved PostScript parser.
92   
93    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
94   
95  * 1.66 :
96 
97    - Improved PCLXL parser.
98   
99    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
100   
101  * 1.65 :
102   
103    - Improved PostScript parser.
104   
105    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
106   
107  * 1.64 :
108   
109    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
110   
111  * 1.63 :
112 
113    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
114      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
115   
116  * 1.62 :
117 
118    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
119   
120    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
121     
122  * 1.61 :
123 
124    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
125   
126    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
127      Now the number can be different from page to page.
128   
129  * 1.60 :
130 
131    - Improved PCLXL parser.
132   
133  * 1.59 :
134   
135    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
136     
137  * 1.58 :
138 
139    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
140   
141    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
142   
143  * 1.57 :
144 
145    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
146   
147  * 1.56 :
148 
149    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
150      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
151     
152  * 1.55 :
153 
154    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
155   
156  * 1.54 :
157   
158    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
159   
160  * 1.53 :
161 
162    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
163   
164  * 1.52 :
165 
166    - Added support for the TIFF format.
167   
168  * 1.51 :
169 
170    - Added support for the DVI format.
171   
172  * 1.50 :
173 
174    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
175      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
176      library.
177     
178    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
179     
180  * 1.00 :
181
182    - First release.
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