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Finalized support for MS documents.

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3pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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19=============================================================================
20
21pkpgcounter News :
22
23  * 3.40 :
24 
25    - Fixed a major bug in the detection of OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300)
26      files.
27     
28    - Added support for page counting in Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...)
29      documents.
30     
31    - Added support for ink accounting in Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...)
32      and OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) documents.
33     
34    - Now automatically detects missing executable dependencies at runtime. 
35     
36  * 3.30 :
37 
38    - Added support for all file formats supported by the Python Imaging
39      Library.
40   
41    - Added a minimal parser for Hewlett-Packard LIDIL documents, as
42      produced by the hpijs driver.
43     
44    - Improved general reliability.
45   
46    - Improved detection of PCL3/4/5 jobs.
47   
48    - Major code cleaning. 
49     
50  * 3.20 :
51   
52    - Added a minimal parser for Brother HBP documents.
53   
54    - Added support for Canon ImageRunner commands to the PCLXL parser,
55      much like it was already done for the PCL3/4/5 parser.
56     
57  * 3.10 :
58 
59    - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents.
60   
61    - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's
62      ImageRunner printer drivers.
63   
64  * 3.00 :
65 
66    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
67      printer drivers.
68     
69    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 
70   
71  * 2.18 :
72 
73    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
74   
75  * 2.17 :
76 
77    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
78      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
79   
80  * 2.16 :
81 
82    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
83      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
84      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
85     
86  * 2.15 :
87   
88    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
89      incorrectly accounted for.
90   
91    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
92   
93  * 2.14 :
94 
95    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
96      comments.
97     
98  * 2.13 :
99   
100    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
101      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
102      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
103      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
104 
105  * 2.12 :
106 
107    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
108   
109  * 2.11 :
110 
111    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
112   
113  * 2.10 :
114 
115    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
116      ink coverage.
117   
118    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
119   
120    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
121   
122  * 2.00 :
123 
124    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
125      table driven.
126     
127    - Improved the PostScript parser.
128   
129  * 1.85 :
130 
131    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
132      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
133      reverse engineering the file format.
134     
135  * 1.85alpha :
136 
137    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
138      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
139     
140  * 1.84 :
141 
142    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
143      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
144      DVI and TIFF.
145     
146  * 1.84alpha :
147 
148    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
149      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
150      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
151      documented yet.
152   
153  * 1.83 :
154 
155    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
156   
157  * 1.82 :
158 
159    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
160   
161  * 1.81 :
162 
163    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
164   
165  * 1.80 :
166 
167    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
168   
169  * 1.79 :
170 
171    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
172   
173  * 1.78 :
174 
175    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
176      Reader.
177   
178  * 1.77 :
179 
180    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
181   
182    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
183   
184  * 1.76 :
185 
186    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
187   
188    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
189   
190  * 1.75 :
191 
192    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
193      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
194     
195  * 1.74 :
196 
197    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
198   
199    - Changed copyright years.
200   
201  * 1.73 :
202 
203    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
204   
205    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
206   
207    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
208   
209    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
210   
211  * 1.72 :
212 
213    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
214      the parsing.
215   
216  * 1.71 :
217 
218    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
219      particular MSWindows driver.
220   
221    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
222      quiet when running without Psyco.
223     
224  * 1.70 :
225 
226    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
227   
228  * 1.69 :
229 
230    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
231   
232    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
233   
234  * 1.68 :
235 
236    - Improved PostScript parser.
237   
238  * 1.67 :
239 
240    - Improved PostScript parser.
241   
242    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
243   
244  * 1.66 :
245 
246    - Improved PCLXL parser.
247   
248    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
249   
250  * 1.65 :
251   
252    - Improved PostScript parser.
253   
254    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
255   
256  * 1.64 :
257   
258    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
259   
260  * 1.63 :
261 
262    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
263      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
264   
265  * 1.62 :
266 
267    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
268   
269    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
270     
271  * 1.61 :
272 
273    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
274   
275    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
276      Now the number can be different from page to page.
277   
278  * 1.60 :
279 
280    - Improved PCLXL parser.
281   
282  * 1.59 :
283   
284    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
285     
286  * 1.58 :
287 
288    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
289   
290    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
291   
292  * 1.57 :
293 
294    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
295   
296  * 1.56 :
297 
298    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
299      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
300     
301  * 1.55 :
302 
303    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
304   
305  * 1.54 :
306   
307    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
308   
309  * 1.53 :
310 
311    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
312   
313  * 1.52 :
314 
315    - Added support for the TIFF format.
316   
317  * 1.51 :
318 
319    - Added support for the DVI format.
320   
321  * 1.50 :
322 
323    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
324      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
325      library.
326     
327    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
328     
329  * 1.00 :
330
331    - First release.
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