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Fixed a problem in the PostScript? parser with some versions (or settings)
or a2ps and endscript.

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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=============================================================================
21
22pkpgcounter News :
23
24  * 2.12 :
25 
26    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
27   
28  * 2.11 :
29 
30    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
31   
32  * 2.10 :
33 
34    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
35      ink coverage.
36   
37    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
38   
39    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
40   
41  * 2.00 :
42 
43    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
44      table driven.
45     
46    - Improved the PostScript parser.
47   
48  * 1.85 :
49 
50    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
51      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
52      reverse engineering the file format.
53     
54  * 1.85alpha :
55 
56    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
57      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
58     
59  * 1.84 :
60 
61    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
62      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
63      DVI and TIFF.
64     
65  * 1.84alpha :
66 
67    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
68      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
69      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
70      documented yet.
71   
72  * 1.83 :
73 
74    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
75   
76  * 1.82 :
77 
78    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
79   
80  * 1.81 :
81 
82    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
83   
84  * 1.80 :
85 
86    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
87   
88  * 1.79 :
89 
90    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
91   
92  * 1.78 :
93 
94    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
95      Reader.
96   
97  * 1.77 :
98 
99    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
100   
101    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
102   
103  * 1.76 :
104 
105    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
106   
107    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
108   
109  * 1.75 :
110 
111    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
112      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
113     
114  * 1.74 :
115 
116    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
117   
118    - Changed copyright years.
119   
120  * 1.73 :
121 
122    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
123   
124    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
125   
126    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
127   
128    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
129   
130  * 1.72 :
131 
132    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
133      the parsing.
134   
135  * 1.71 :
136 
137    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
138      particular MSWindows driver.
139   
140    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
141      quiet when running without Psyco.
142     
143  * 1.70 :
144 
145    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
146   
147  * 1.69 :
148 
149    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
150   
151    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
152   
153  * 1.68 :
154 
155    - Improved PostScript parser.
156   
157  * 1.67 :
158 
159    - Improved PostScript parser.
160   
161    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
162   
163  * 1.66 :
164 
165    - Improved PCLXL parser.
166   
167    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
168   
169  * 1.65 :
170   
171    - Improved PostScript parser.
172   
173    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
174   
175  * 1.64 :
176   
177    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
178   
179  * 1.63 :
180 
181    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
182      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
183   
184  * 1.62 :
185 
186    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
187   
188    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
189     
190  * 1.61 :
191 
192    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
193   
194    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
195      Now the number can be different from page to page.
196   
197  * 1.60 :
198 
199    - Improved PCLXL parser.
200   
201  * 1.59 :
202   
203    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
204     
205  * 1.58 :
206 
207    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
208   
209    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
210   
211  * 1.57 :
212 
213    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
214   
215  * 1.56 :
216 
217    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
218      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
219     
220  * 1.55 :
221 
222    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
223   
224  * 1.54 :
225   
226    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
227   
228  * 1.53 :
229 
230    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
231   
232  * 1.52 :
233 
234    - Added support for the TIFF format.
235   
236  * 1.51 :
237 
238    - Added support for the DVI format.
239   
240  * 1.50 :
241 
242    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
243      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
244      library.
245     
246    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
247     
248  * 1.00 :
249
250    - First release.
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