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Revision 305, 3.9 kB (checked in by jerome, 19 years ago)

Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner?'s "extension" to PCL.

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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  * 1.75 :
25 
26    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
27      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
28     
29  * 1.74 :
30 
31    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
32   
33    - Changed copyright years.
34   
35  * 1.73 :
36 
37    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
38   
39    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
40   
41    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
42   
43    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
44   
45  * 1.72 :
46 
47    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
48      the parsing.
49   
50  * 1.71 :
51 
52    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
53      particular MSWindows driver.
54   
55    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
56      quiet when running without Psyco.
57     
58  * 1.70 :
59 
60    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
61   
62  * 1.69 :
63 
64    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
65   
66    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
67   
68  * 1.68 :
69 
70    - Improved PostScript parser.
71   
72  * 1.67 :
73 
74    - Improved PostScript parser.
75   
76    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
77   
78  * 1.66 :
79 
80    - Improved PCLXL parser.
81   
82    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
83   
84  * 1.65 :
85   
86    - Improved PostScript parser.
87   
88    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
89   
90  * 1.64 :
91   
92    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
93   
94  * 1.63 :
95 
96    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
97      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
98   
99  * 1.62 :
100 
101    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
102   
103    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
104     
105  * 1.61 :
106 
107    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
108   
109    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
110      Now the number can be different from page to page.
111   
112  * 1.60 :
113 
114    - Improved PCLXL parser.
115   
116  * 1.59 :
117   
118    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
119     
120  * 1.58 :
121 
122    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
123   
124    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
125   
126  * 1.57 :
127 
128    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
129   
130  * 1.56 :
131 
132    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
133      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
134     
135  * 1.55 :
136 
137    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
138   
139  * 1.54 :
140   
141    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
142   
143  * 1.53 :
144 
145    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
146   
147  * 1.52 :
148 
149    - Added support for the TIFF format.
150   
151  * 1.51 :
152 
153    - Added support for the DVI format.
154   
155  * 1.50 :
156 
157    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
158      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
159      library.
160     
161    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
162     
163  * 1.00 :
164
165    - First release.
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