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Added plain text parser with support for both page counting and ink coverage.

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3pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser
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20=============================================================================
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22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 2.10 :
25 
26    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
27      ink coverage.
28   
29    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
30   
31    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
32   
33  * 2.00 :
34 
35    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
36      table driven.
37     
38    - Improved the PostScript parser.
39   
40  * 1.85 :
41 
42    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
43      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
44      reverse engineering the file format.
45     
46  * 1.85alpha :
47 
48    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
49      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
50     
51  * 1.84 :
52 
53    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
54      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
55      DVI and TIFF.
56     
57  * 1.84alpha :
58 
59    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
60      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
61      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
62      documented yet.
63   
64  * 1.83 :
65 
66    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
67   
68  * 1.82 :
69 
70    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
71   
72  * 1.81 :
73 
74    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
75   
76  * 1.80 :
77 
78    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
79   
80  * 1.79 :
81 
82    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
83   
84  * 1.78 :
85 
86    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
87      Reader.
88   
89  * 1.77 :
90 
91    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
92   
93    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
94   
95  * 1.76 :
96 
97    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
98   
99    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
100   
101  * 1.75 :
102 
103    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
104      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
105     
106  * 1.74 :
107 
108    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
109   
110    - Changed copyright years.
111   
112  * 1.73 :
113 
114    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
115   
116    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
117   
118    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
119   
120    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
121   
122  * 1.72 :
123 
124    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
125      the parsing.
126   
127  * 1.71 :
128 
129    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
130      particular MSWindows driver.
131   
132    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
133      quiet when running without Psyco.
134     
135  * 1.70 :
136 
137    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
138   
139  * 1.69 :
140 
141    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
142   
143    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
144   
145  * 1.68 :
146 
147    - Improved PostScript parser.
148   
149  * 1.67 :
150 
151    - Improved PostScript parser.
152   
153    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
154   
155  * 1.66 :
156 
157    - Improved PCLXL parser.
158   
159    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
160   
161  * 1.65 :
162   
163    - Improved PostScript parser.
164   
165    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
166   
167  * 1.64 :
168   
169    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
170   
171  * 1.63 :
172 
173    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
174      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
175   
176  * 1.62 :
177 
178    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
179   
180    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
181     
182  * 1.61 :
183 
184    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
185   
186    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
187      Now the number can be different from page to page.
188   
189  * 1.60 :
190 
191    - Improved PCLXL parser.
192   
193  * 1.59 :
194   
195    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
196     
197  * 1.58 :
198 
199    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
200   
201    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
202   
203  * 1.57 :
204 
205    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
206   
207  * 1.56 :
208 
209    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
210      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
211     
212  * 1.55 :
213 
214    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
215   
216  * 1.54 :
217   
218    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
219   
220  * 1.53 :
221 
222    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
223   
224  * 1.52 :
225 
226    - Added support for the TIFF format.
227   
228  * 1.51 :
229 
230    - Added support for the DVI format.
231   
232  * 1.50 :
233 
234    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
235      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
236      library.
237     
238    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
239     
240  * 1.00 :
241
242    - First release.
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