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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  * 1.85 :
25 
26    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
27      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
28      reverse engineering the file format.
29     
30  * 1.85alpha :
31 
32    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
33      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
34     
35  * 1.84 :
36 
37    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
38      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
39      DVI and TIFF.
40     
41  * 1.84alpha :
42 
43    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
44      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
45      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
46      documented yet.
47   
48  * 1.83 :
49 
50    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
51   
52  * 1.82 :
53 
54    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
55   
56  * 1.81 :
57 
58    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
59   
60  * 1.80 :
61 
62    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
63   
64  * 1.79 :
65 
66    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
67   
68  * 1.78 :
69 
70    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
71      Reader.
72   
73  * 1.77 :
74 
75    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
76   
77    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
78   
79  * 1.76 :
80 
81    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
82   
83    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
84   
85  * 1.75 :
86 
87    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
88      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
89     
90  * 1.74 :
91 
92    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
93   
94    - Changed copyright years.
95   
96  * 1.73 :
97 
98    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
99   
100    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
101   
102    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
103   
104    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
105   
106  * 1.72 :
107 
108    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
109      the parsing.
110   
111  * 1.71 :
112 
113    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
114      particular MSWindows driver.
115   
116    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
117      quiet when running without Psyco.
118     
119  * 1.70 :
120 
121    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
122   
123  * 1.69 :
124 
125    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
126   
127    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
128   
129  * 1.68 :
130 
131    - Improved PostScript parser.
132   
133  * 1.67 :
134 
135    - Improved PostScript parser.
136   
137    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
138   
139  * 1.66 :
140 
141    - Improved PCLXL parser.
142   
143    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
144   
145  * 1.65 :
146   
147    - Improved PostScript parser.
148   
149    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
150   
151  * 1.64 :
152   
153    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
154   
155  * 1.63 :
156 
157    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
158      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
159   
160  * 1.62 :
161 
162    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
163   
164    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
165     
166  * 1.61 :
167 
168    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
169   
170    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
171      Now the number can be different from page to page.
172   
173  * 1.60 :
174 
175    - Improved PCLXL parser.
176   
177  * 1.59 :
178   
179    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
180     
181  * 1.58 :
182 
183    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
184   
185    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
186   
187  * 1.57 :
188 
189    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
190   
191  * 1.56 :
192 
193    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
194      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
195     
196  * 1.55 :
197 
198    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
199   
200  * 1.54 :
201   
202    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
203   
204  * 1.53 :
205 
206    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
207   
208  * 1.52 :
209 
210    - Added support for the TIFF format.
211   
212  * 1.51 :
213 
214    - Added support for the DVI format.
215   
216  * 1.50 :
217 
218    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
219      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
220      library.
221     
222    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
223     
224  * 1.00 :
225
226    - First release.
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