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3pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 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 3 of the License, or
9(at your option) any later version.
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11This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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19=============================================================================
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21pkpgcounter News :
22
23  * 3.51 :
24
25    - Partial rewrite of the PostScript parser, with huge performance increase.
26
27    - Fixed a problem in the PostScript parser where the number of copies set with
28      e.g. "dvips -c 9 -o output.ps input.dvi" wasn't correctly detected.
29
30    - Increased accuracy in the PDF parser, with some speed expense but
31      some big room for future improvements.
32
33  * 3.50 :
34
35    - Added support for Canon BJ/BJC documents in page counting mode.
36
37    - Added support for Structured Fax documents in page counting mode.
38
39    - Added support for ASCII PNM (Netpbm) documents in page counting mode.
40
41    - Fixed a problem with the parsing of SPL1 (GDI) documents : all such
42      documents should now be correctly parsed.
43
44    - Improved the PCL3/4/5 parser.
45
46  * 3.40 :
47
48    - Fixed a major bug in the detection of OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300)
49      files.
50
51    - Added support for page counting in Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...)
52      documents.
53
54    - Added support for ink accounting in Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...)
55      and OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) documents.
56
57    - Now automatically detects missing executable dependencies at runtime.
58
59  * 3.30 :
60
61    - Added support for all file formats supported by the Python Imaging
62      Library.
63
64    - Added a minimal parser for Hewlett-Packard LIDIL documents, as
65      produced by the hpijs driver.
66
67    - Improved general reliability.
68
69    - Improved detection of PCL3/4/5 jobs.
70
71    - Major code cleaning.
72
73  * 3.20 :
74
75    - Added a minimal parser for Brother HBP documents.
76
77    - Added support for Canon ImageRunner commands to the PCLXL parser,
78      much like it was already done for the PCL3/4/5 parser.
79
80  * 3.10 :
81
82    - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents.
83
84    - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's
85      ImageRunner printer drivers.
86
87  * 3.00 :
88
89    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
90      printer drivers.
91
92    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher.
93
94  * 2.18 :
95
96    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
97
98  * 2.17 :
99
100    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
101      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
102
103  * 2.16 :
104
105    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
106      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
107      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
108
109  * 2.15 :
110
111    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
112      incorrectly accounted for.
113
114    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
115
116  * 2.14 :
117
118    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
119      comments.
120
121  * 2.13 :
122
123    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
124      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
125      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
126      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
127
128  * 2.12 :
129
130    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
131
132  * 2.11 :
133
134    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
135
136  * 2.10 :
137
138    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
139      ink coverage.
140
141    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
142
143    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
144
145  * 2.00 :
146
147    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
148      table driven.
149
150    - Improved the PostScript parser.
151
152  * 1.85 :
153
154    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
155      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
156      reverse engineering the file format.
157
158  * 1.85alpha :
159
160    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
161      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
162
163  * 1.84 :
164
165    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
166      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
167      DVI and TIFF.
168
169  * 1.84alpha :
170
171    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
172      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
173      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
174      documented yet.
175
176  * 1.83 :
177
178    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
179
180  * 1.82 :
181
182    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
183
184  * 1.81 :
185
186    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
187
188  * 1.80 :
189
190    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
191
192  * 1.79 :
193
194    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
195
196  * 1.78 :
197
198    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
199      Reader.
200
201  * 1.77 :
202
203    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
204
205    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
206
207  * 1.76 :
208
209    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
210
211    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
212
213  * 1.75 :
214
215    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
216      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
217
218  * 1.74 :
219
220    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
221
222    - Changed copyright years.
223
224  * 1.73 :
225
226    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
227
228    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
229
230    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
231
232    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
233
234  * 1.72 :
235
236    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
237      the parsing.
238
239  * 1.71 :
240
241    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
242      particular MSWindows driver.
243
244    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
245      quiet when running without Psyco.
246
247  * 1.70 :
248
249    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
250
251  * 1.69 :
252
253    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
254
255    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
256
257  * 1.68 :
258
259    - Improved PostScript parser.
260
261  * 1.67 :
262
263    - Improved PostScript parser.
264
265    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
266
267  * 1.66 :
268
269    - Improved PCLXL parser.
270
271    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
272
273  * 1.65 :
274
275    - Improved PostScript parser.
276
277    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
278
279  * 1.64 :
280
281    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
282
283  * 1.63 :
284
285    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
286      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
287
288  * 1.62 :
289
290    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
291
292    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
293
294  * 1.61 :
295
296    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
297
298    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
299      Now the number can be different from page to page.
300
301  * 1.60 :
302
303    - Improved PCLXL parser.
304
305  * 1.59 :
306
307    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
308
309  * 1.58 :
310
311    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
312
313    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
314
315  * 1.57 :
316
317    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code.
318
319  * 1.56 :
320
321    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
322      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
323
324  * 1.55 :
325
326    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
327
328  * 1.54 :
329
330    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
331
332  * 1.53 :
333
334    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
335
336  * 1.52 :
337
338    - Added support for the TIFF format.
339
340  * 1.51 :
341
342    - Added support for the DVI format.
343
344  * 1.50 :
345
346    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
347      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
348      library.
349
350    - Several improvements to the parsing code.
351
352  * 1.00 :
353
354    - First release.
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