[185] | 1 | # $Id$ |
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| 3 | pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser |
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[303] | 5 | (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> |
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[185] | 6 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 7 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 8 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 9 | (at your option) any later version. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 12 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 13 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 14 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 17 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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[211] | 18 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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[185] | 19 | |
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| 20 | ============================================================================= |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | pkpgcounter News : |
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[273] | 23 | |
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[387] | 24 | * 1.85 : |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page |
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| 27 | counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on |
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| 28 | reverse engineering the file format. |
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| 29 | |
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[383] | 30 | * 1.85alpha : |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | - Added test document and program to generate the test document |
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| 33 | to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm. |
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| 34 | |
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[378] | 35 | * 1.84 : |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented. |
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| 38 | The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5, |
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| 39 | DVI and TIFF. |
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| 40 | |
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[363] | 41 | * 1.84alpha : |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage. |
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[366] | 44 | See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command |
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[363] | 45 | line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not |
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| 46 | documented yet. |
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| 47 | |
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[343] | 48 | * 1.83 : |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection. |
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| 51 | |
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[339] | 52 | * 1.82 : |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output. |
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| 55 | |
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[334] | 56 | * 1.81 : |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78. |
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| 59 | |
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[329] | 60 | * 1.80 : |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format. |
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| 63 | |
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[325] | 64 | * 1.79 : |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output. |
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| 67 | |
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[321] | 68 | * 1.78 : |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat |
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| 71 | Reader. |
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| 72 | |
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[318] | 73 | * 1.77 : |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76. |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%. |
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| 78 | |
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[314] | 79 | * 1.76 : |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags. |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands. |
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| 84 | |
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[305] | 85 | * 1.75 : |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR" |
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| 88 | (I don't know which) Page Description Language. |
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| 89 | |
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[303] | 90 | * 1.74 : |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL. |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | - Changed copyright years. |
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| 95 | |
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[295] | 96 | * 1.73 : |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 99 | |
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| 100 | - Fixed PCLXL detection code. |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL. |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill. |
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| 105 | |
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[273] | 106 | * 1.72 : |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do |
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| 109 | the parsing. |
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[185] | 110 | |
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[272] | 111 | * 1.71 : |
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| 112 | |
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| 113 | - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a |
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| 114 | particular MSWindows driver. |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays |
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| 117 | quiet when running without Psyco. |
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| 118 | |
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[269] | 119 | * 1.70 : |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers. |
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| 122 | |
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[267] | 123 | * 1.69 : |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 126 | |
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| 127 | - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff. |
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| 128 | |
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[263] | 129 | * 1.68 : |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | - Improved PostScript parser. |
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| 132 | |
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[262] | 133 | * 1.67 : |
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| 134 | |
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| 135 | - Improved PostScript parser. |
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| 136 | |
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| 137 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 138 | |
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[258] | 139 | * 1.66 : |
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| 140 | |
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| 141 | - Improved PCLXL parser. |
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| 142 | |
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| 143 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 144 | |
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[256] | 145 | * 1.65 : |
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| 146 | |
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| 147 | - Improved PostScript parser. |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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[255] | 151 | * 1.64 : |
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| 152 | |
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| 153 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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[253] | 155 | * 1.63 : |
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| 156 | |
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| 157 | - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode |
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| 158 | and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers. |
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| 159 | |
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[252] | 160 | * 1.62 : |
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| 161 | |
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| 162 | - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser. |
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| 163 | |
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| 164 | - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 165 | |
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[248] | 166 | * 1.61 : |
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| 167 | |
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[249] | 168 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 169 | |
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[248] | 170 | - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser. |
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| 171 | Now the number can be different from page to page. |
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| 172 | |
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[245] | 173 | * 1.60 : |
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| 174 | |
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| 175 | - Improved PCLXL parser. |
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[243] | 177 | * 1.59 : |
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| 178 | |
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| 179 | - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings. |
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| 180 | |
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[240] | 181 | * 1.58 : |
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| 182 | |
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| 183 | - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object. |
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| 184 | |
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| 185 | - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available. |
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[237] | 187 | * 1.57 : |
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| 188 | |
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| 189 | - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. |
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| 190 | |
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[235] | 191 | * 1.56 : |
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| 193 | - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems |
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| 194 | when the code will be integrated back into PyKota. |
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| 195 | |
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[229] | 196 | * 1.55 : |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents. |
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| 199 | |
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[224] | 200 | * 1.54 : |
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| 201 | |
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| 202 | - Added online documentation and a manual page. |
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| 203 | |
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[220] | 204 | * 1.53 : |
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| 205 | |
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| 206 | - Moved code around to improve maintainability. |
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| 207 | |
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[217] | 208 | * 1.52 : |
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| 209 | |
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[220] | 210 | - Added support for the TIFF format. |
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[217] | 211 | |
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[216] | 212 | * 1.51 : |
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| 213 | |
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[220] | 214 | - Added support for the DVI format. |
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[216] | 215 | |
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[211] | 216 | * 1.50 : |
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| 217 | |
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| 218 | - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool |
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| 219 | is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer |
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| 220 | library. |
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| 221 | |
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| 222 | - Several improvements to the parsing code. |
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| 223 | |
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[185] | 224 | * 1.00 : |
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| 225 | |
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| 226 | - First release. |
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