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Revision 318, 4.2 kB (checked in by jerome, 18 years ago)

Fixed handling of the undocumented 0x46 tag, hopefully for good...

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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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8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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20=============================================================================
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22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 1.77 :
25 
26    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
27   
28    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
29   
30  * 1.76 :
31 
32    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
33   
34    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
35   
36  * 1.75 :
37 
38    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
39      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
40     
41  * 1.74 :
42 
43    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
44   
45    - Changed copyright years.
46   
47  * 1.73 :
48 
49    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
50   
51    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
52   
53    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
54   
55    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
56   
57  * 1.72 :
58 
59    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
60      the parsing.
61   
62  * 1.71 :
63 
64    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
65      particular MSWindows driver.
66   
67    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
68      quiet when running without Psyco.
69     
70  * 1.70 :
71 
72    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
73   
74  * 1.69 :
75 
76    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
77   
78    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
79   
80  * 1.68 :
81 
82    - Improved PostScript parser.
83   
84  * 1.67 :
85 
86    - Improved PostScript parser.
87   
88    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
89   
90  * 1.66 :
91 
92    - Improved PCLXL parser.
93   
94    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
95   
96  * 1.65 :
97   
98    - Improved PostScript parser.
99   
100    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
101   
102  * 1.64 :
103   
104    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
105   
106  * 1.63 :
107 
108    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
109      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
110   
111  * 1.62 :
112 
113    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
114   
115    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
116     
117  * 1.61 :
118 
119    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
120   
121    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
122      Now the number can be different from page to page.
123   
124  * 1.60 :
125 
126    - Improved PCLXL parser.
127   
128  * 1.59 :
129   
130    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
131     
132  * 1.58 :
133 
134    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
135   
136    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
137   
138  * 1.57 :
139 
140    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
141   
142  * 1.56 :
143 
144    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
145      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
146     
147  * 1.55 :
148 
149    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
150   
151  * 1.54 :
152   
153    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
154   
155  * 1.53 :
156 
157    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
158   
159  * 1.52 :
160 
161    - Added support for the TIFF format.
162   
163  * 1.51 :
164 
165    - Added support for the DVI format.
166   
167  * 1.50 :
168 
169    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
170      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
171      library.
172     
173    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
174     
175  * 1.00 :
176
177    - First release.
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