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Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78

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