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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=============================================================================
21
22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 2.00 :
25 
26    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
27      table driven.
28     
29    - Improved the PostScript parser.
30   
31  * 1.85 :
32 
33    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
34      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
35      reverse engineering the file format.
36     
37  * 1.85alpha :
38 
39    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
40      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
41     
42  * 1.84 :
43 
44    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
45      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
46      DVI and TIFF.
47     
48  * 1.84alpha :
49 
50    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
51      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
52      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
53      documented yet.
54   
55  * 1.83 :
56 
57    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
58   
59  * 1.82 :
60 
61    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
62   
63  * 1.81 :
64 
65    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
66   
67  * 1.80 :
68 
69    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
70   
71  * 1.79 :
72 
73    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
74   
75  * 1.78 :
76 
77    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
78      Reader.
79   
80  * 1.77 :
81 
82    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
83   
84    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
85   
86  * 1.76 :
87 
88    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
89   
90    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
91   
92  * 1.75 :
93 
94    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
95      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
96     
97  * 1.74 :
98 
99    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
100   
101    - Changed copyright years.
102   
103  * 1.73 :
104 
105    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
106   
107    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
108   
109    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
110   
111    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
112   
113  * 1.72 :
114 
115    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
116      the parsing.
117   
118  * 1.71 :
119 
120    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
121      particular MSWindows driver.
122   
123    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
124      quiet when running without Psyco.
125     
126  * 1.70 :
127 
128    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
129   
130  * 1.69 :
131 
132    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
133   
134    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
135   
136  * 1.68 :
137 
138    - Improved PostScript parser.
139   
140  * 1.67 :
141 
142    - Improved PostScript parser.
143   
144    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
145   
146  * 1.66 :
147 
148    - Improved PCLXL parser.
149   
150    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
151   
152  * 1.65 :
153   
154    - Improved PostScript parser.
155   
156    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
157   
158  * 1.64 :
159   
160    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
161   
162  * 1.63 :
163 
164    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
165      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
166   
167  * 1.62 :
168 
169    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
170   
171    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
172     
173  * 1.61 :
174 
175    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
176   
177    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
178      Now the number can be different from page to page.
179   
180  * 1.60 :
181 
182    - Improved PCLXL parser.
183   
184  * 1.59 :
185   
186    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
187     
188  * 1.58 :
189 
190    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
191   
192    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
193   
194  * 1.57 :
195 
196    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
197   
198  * 1.56 :
199 
200    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
201      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
202     
203  * 1.55 :
204 
205    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
206   
207  * 1.54 :
208   
209    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
210   
211  * 1.53 :
212 
213    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
214   
215  * 1.52 :
216 
217    - Added support for the TIFF format.
218   
219  * 1.51 :
220 
221    - Added support for the DVI format.
222   
223  * 1.50 :
224 
225    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
226      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
227      library.
228     
229    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
230     
231  * 1.00 :
232
233    - First release.
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