[185] | 1 | # $Id$ |
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| 3 | pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser |
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[443] | 5 | (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 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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[444] | 24 | * 2.14 : |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page: |
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| 27 | comments. |
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| 28 | |
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[439] | 29 | * 2.13 : |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate |
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| 32 | grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the |
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| 33 | percents are always "G : 100.0 C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0 C : 100.0" |
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| 34 | respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page. |
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| 35 | |
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[437] | 36 | * 2.12 : |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser. |
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| 39 | |
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[435] | 40 | * 2.11 : |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode. |
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| 43 | |
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[418] | 44 | * 2.10 : |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and |
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| 47 | ink coverage. |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | - Added a minimal SPL1 parser. |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers. |
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| 52 | |
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[406] | 53 | * 2.00 : |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now |
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| 56 | table driven. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | - Improved the PostScript parser. |
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| 59 | |
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[387] | 60 | * 1.85 : |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page |
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| 63 | counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on |
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| 64 | reverse engineering the file format. |
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| 65 | |
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[383] | 66 | * 1.85alpha : |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | - Added test document and program to generate the test document |
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| 69 | to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm. |
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| 70 | |
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[378] | 71 | * 1.84 : |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented. |
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| 74 | The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5, |
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| 75 | DVI and TIFF. |
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| 76 | |
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[363] | 77 | * 1.84alpha : |
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| 78 | |
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| 79 | - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage. |
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[366] | 80 | See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command |
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[363] | 81 | line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not |
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| 82 | documented yet. |
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| 83 | |
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[343] | 84 | * 1.83 : |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection. |
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| 87 | |
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[339] | 88 | * 1.82 : |
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| 89 | |
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| 90 | - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output. |
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| 91 | |
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[334] | 92 | * 1.81 : |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78. |
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| 95 | |
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[329] | 96 | * 1.80 : |
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| 97 | |
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| 98 | - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format. |
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| 99 | |
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[325] | 100 | * 1.79 : |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output. |
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| 103 | |
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[321] | 104 | * 1.78 : |
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| 105 | |
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| 106 | - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat |
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| 107 | Reader. |
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| 108 | |
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[318] | 109 | * 1.77 : |
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| 110 | |
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| 111 | - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76. |
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| 112 | |
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| 113 | - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%. |
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| 114 | |
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[314] | 115 | * 1.76 : |
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| 117 | - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags. |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands. |
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| 120 | |
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[305] | 121 | * 1.75 : |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR" |
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| 124 | (I don't know which) Page Description Language. |
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| 125 | |
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[303] | 126 | * 1.74 : |
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| 127 | |
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| 128 | - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL. |
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| 129 | |
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| 130 | - Changed copyright years. |
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| 131 | |
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[295] | 132 | * 1.73 : |
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| 133 | |
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| 134 | - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 135 | |
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| 136 | - Fixed PCLXL detection code. |
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| 137 | |
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| 138 | - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL. |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill. |
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| 141 | |
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[273] | 142 | * 1.72 : |
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| 143 | |
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| 144 | - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do |
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| 145 | the parsing. |
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[185] | 146 | |
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[272] | 147 | * 1.71 : |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a |
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| 150 | particular MSWindows driver. |
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| 151 | |
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| 152 | - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays |
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| 153 | quiet when running without Psyco. |
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| 154 | |
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[269] | 155 | * 1.70 : |
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| 156 | |
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| 157 | - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers. |
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| 158 | |
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[267] | 159 | * 1.69 : |
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| 160 | |
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| 161 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 162 | |
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| 163 | - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff. |
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| 164 | |
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[263] | 165 | * 1.68 : |
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| 166 | |
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| 167 | - Improved PostScript parser. |
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[262] | 169 | * 1.67 : |
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| 170 | |
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| 171 | - Improved PostScript parser. |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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[258] | 175 | * 1.66 : |
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| 176 | |
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| 177 | - Improved PCLXL parser. |
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| 178 | |
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| 179 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 180 | |
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[256] | 181 | * 1.65 : |
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| 182 | |
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| 183 | - Improved PostScript parser. |
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| 184 | |
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| 185 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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[255] | 187 | * 1.64 : |
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| 188 | |
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| 189 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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[253] | 191 | * 1.63 : |
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| 192 | |
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| 193 | - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode |
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| 194 | and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers. |
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[252] | 196 | * 1.62 : |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser. |
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| 199 | |
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| 200 | - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 201 | |
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[248] | 202 | * 1.61 : |
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| 203 | |
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[249] | 204 | - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. |
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| 205 | |
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[248] | 206 | - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser. |
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| 207 | Now the number can be different from page to page. |
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| 208 | |
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[245] | 209 | * 1.60 : |
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| 210 | |
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| 211 | - Improved PCLXL parser. |
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[243] | 213 | * 1.59 : |
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| 214 | |
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| 215 | - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings. |
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| 216 | |
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[240] | 217 | * 1.58 : |
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| 218 | |
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| 219 | - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object. |
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| 220 | |
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| 221 | - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available. |
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[237] | 223 | * 1.57 : |
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| 224 | |
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| 225 | - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. |
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| 226 | |
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[235] | 227 | * 1.56 : |
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| 228 | |
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| 229 | - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems |
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| 230 | when the code will be integrated back into PyKota. |
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| 231 | |
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[229] | 232 | * 1.55 : |
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| 233 | |
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| 234 | - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents. |
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[224] | 236 | * 1.54 : |
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| 237 | |
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| 238 | - Added online documentation and a manual page. |
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| 239 | |
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[220] | 240 | * 1.53 : |
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| 241 | |
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| 242 | - Moved code around to improve maintainability. |
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| 243 | |
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[217] | 244 | * 1.52 : |
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| 245 | |
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[220] | 246 | - Added support for the TIFF format. |
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[217] | 247 | |
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[216] | 248 | * 1.51 : |
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| 249 | |
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[220] | 250 | - Added support for the DVI format. |
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[216] | 251 | |
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[211] | 252 | * 1.50 : |
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| 253 | |
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| 254 | - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool |
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| 255 | is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer |
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| 256 | library. |
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| 257 | |
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| 258 | - Several improvements to the parsing code. |
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| 259 | |
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[185] | 260 | * 1.00 : |
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| 261 | |
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| 262 | - First release. |
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