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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>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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20=============================================================================
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22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 1.85alpha :
25 
26    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
27      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
28     
29  * 1.84 :
30 
31    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
32      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
33      DVI and TIFF.
34     
35  * 1.84alpha :
36 
37    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
38      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
39      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
40      documented yet.
41   
42  * 1.83 :
43 
44    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
45   
46  * 1.82 :
47 
48    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
49   
50  * 1.81 :
51 
52    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
53   
54  * 1.80 :
55 
56    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
57   
58  * 1.79 :
59 
60    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
61   
62  * 1.78 :
63 
64    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
65      Reader.
66   
67  * 1.77 :
68 
69    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
70   
71    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
72   
73  * 1.76 :
74 
75    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
76   
77    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
78   
79  * 1.75 :
80 
81    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
82      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
83     
84  * 1.74 :
85 
86    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
87   
88    - Changed copyright years.
89   
90  * 1.73 :
91 
92    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
93   
94    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
95   
96    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
97   
98    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
99   
100  * 1.72 :
101 
102    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
103      the parsing.
104   
105  * 1.71 :
106 
107    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
108      particular MSWindows driver.
109   
110    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
111      quiet when running without Psyco.
112     
113  * 1.70 :
114 
115    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
116   
117  * 1.69 :
118 
119    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
120   
121    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
122   
123  * 1.68 :
124 
125    - Improved PostScript parser.
126   
127  * 1.67 :
128 
129    - Improved PostScript parser.
130   
131    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
132   
133  * 1.66 :
134 
135    - Improved PCLXL parser.
136   
137    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
138   
139  * 1.65 :
140   
141    - Improved PostScript parser.
142   
143    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
144   
145  * 1.64 :
146   
147    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
148   
149  * 1.63 :
150 
151    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
152      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
153   
154  * 1.62 :
155 
156    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
157   
158    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
159     
160  * 1.61 :
161 
162    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
163   
164    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
165      Now the number can be different from page to page.
166   
167  * 1.60 :
168 
169    - Improved PCLXL parser.
170   
171  * 1.59 :
172   
173    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
174     
175  * 1.58 :
176 
177    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
178   
179    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
180   
181  * 1.57 :
182 
183    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
184   
185  * 1.56 :
186 
187    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
188      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
189     
190  * 1.55 :
191 
192    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
193   
194  * 1.54 :
195   
196    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
197   
198  * 1.53 :
199 
200    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
201   
202  * 1.52 :
203 
204    - Added support for the TIFF format.
205   
206  * 1.51 :
207 
208    - Added support for the DVI format.
209   
210  * 1.50 :
211 
212    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
213      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
214      library.
215     
216    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
217     
218  * 1.00 :
219
220    - First release.
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