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Better heuristic to detect when gs has to be used for parsing

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3pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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20=============================================================================
21
22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 1.72 :
25 
26    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
27      the parsing.
28   
29  * 1.71 :
30 
31    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
32      particular MSWindows driver.
33   
34    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
35      quiet when running without Psyco.
36     
37  * 1.70 :
38 
39    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
40   
41  * 1.69 :
42 
43    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
44   
45    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
46   
47  * 1.68 :
48 
49    - Improved PostScript parser.
50   
51  * 1.67 :
52 
53    - Improved PostScript parser.
54   
55    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
56   
57  * 1.66 :
58 
59    - Improved PCLXL parser.
60   
61    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
62   
63  * 1.65 :
64   
65    - Improved PostScript parser.
66   
67    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
68   
69  * 1.64 :
70   
71    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
72   
73  * 1.63 :
74 
75    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
76      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
77   
78  * 1.62 :
79 
80    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
81   
82    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
83     
84  * 1.61 :
85 
86    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
87   
88    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
89      Now the number can be different from page to page.
90   
91  * 1.60 :
92 
93    - Improved PCLXL parser.
94   
95  * 1.59 :
96   
97    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
98     
99  * 1.58 :
100 
101    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
102   
103    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
104   
105  * 1.57 :
106 
107    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
108   
109  * 1.56 :
110 
111    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
112      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
113     
114  * 1.55 :
115 
116    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
117   
118  * 1.54 :
119   
120    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
121   
122  * 1.53 :
123 
124    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
125   
126  * 1.52 :
127 
128    - Added support for the TIFF format.
129   
130  * 1.51 :
131 
132    - Added support for the DVI format.
133   
134  * 1.50 :
135 
136    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
137      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
138      library.
139     
140    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
141     
142  * 1.00 :
143
144    - First release.
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