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3pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 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,
12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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19=============================================================================
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21pkpgcounter News :
22
23  * 3.00 :
24 
25    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
26      printer drivers.
27     
28    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 
29   
30  * 2.18 :
31 
32    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
33   
34  * 2.17 :
35 
36    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
37      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
38   
39  * 2.16 :
40 
41    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
42      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
43      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
44     
45  * 2.15 :
46   
47    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
48      incorrectly accounted for.
49   
50    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
51   
52  * 2.14 :
53 
54    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
55      comments.
56     
57  * 2.13 :
58   
59    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
60      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
61      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
62      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
63 
64  * 2.12 :
65 
66    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
67   
68  * 2.11 :
69 
70    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
71   
72  * 2.10 :
73 
74    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
75      ink coverage.
76   
77    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
78   
79    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
80   
81  * 2.00 :
82 
83    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
84      table driven.
85     
86    - Improved the PostScript parser.
87   
88  * 1.85 :
89 
90    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
91      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
92      reverse engineering the file format.
93     
94  * 1.85alpha :
95 
96    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
97      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
98     
99  * 1.84 :
100 
101    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
102      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
103      DVI and TIFF.
104     
105  * 1.84alpha :
106 
107    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
108      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
109      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
110      documented yet.
111   
112  * 1.83 :
113 
114    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
115   
116  * 1.82 :
117 
118    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
119   
120  * 1.81 :
121 
122    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
123   
124  * 1.80 :
125 
126    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
127   
128  * 1.79 :
129 
130    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
131   
132  * 1.78 :
133 
134    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
135      Reader.
136   
137  * 1.77 :
138 
139    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
140   
141    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
142   
143  * 1.76 :
144 
145    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
146   
147    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
148   
149  * 1.75 :
150 
151    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
152      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
153     
154  * 1.74 :
155 
156    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
157   
158    - Changed copyright years.
159   
160  * 1.73 :
161 
162    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
163   
164    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
165   
166    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
167   
168    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
169   
170  * 1.72 :
171 
172    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
173      the parsing.
174   
175  * 1.71 :
176 
177    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
178      particular MSWindows driver.
179   
180    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
181      quiet when running without Psyco.
182     
183  * 1.70 :
184 
185    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
186   
187  * 1.69 :
188 
189    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
190   
191    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
192   
193  * 1.68 :
194 
195    - Improved PostScript parser.
196   
197  * 1.67 :
198 
199    - Improved PostScript parser.
200   
201    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
202   
203  * 1.66 :
204 
205    - Improved PCLXL parser.
206   
207    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
208   
209  * 1.65 :
210   
211    - Improved PostScript parser.
212   
213    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
214   
215  * 1.64 :
216   
217    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
218   
219  * 1.63 :
220 
221    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
222      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
223   
224  * 1.62 :
225 
226    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
227   
228    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
229     
230  * 1.61 :
231 
232    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
233   
234    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
235      Now the number can be different from page to page.
236   
237  * 1.60 :
238 
239    - Improved PCLXL parser.
240   
241  * 1.59 :
242   
243    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
244     
245  * 1.58 :
246 
247    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
248   
249    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
250   
251  * 1.57 :
252 
253    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
254   
255  * 1.56 :
256 
257    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
258      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
259     
260  * 1.55 :
261 
262    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
263   
264  * 1.54 :
265   
266    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
267   
268  * 1.53 :
269 
270    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
271   
272  * 1.52 :
273 
274    - Added support for the TIFF format.
275   
276  * 1.51 :
277 
278    - Added support for the DVI format.
279   
280  * 1.50 :
281 
282    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
283      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
284      library.
285     
286    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
287     
288  * 1.00 :
289
290    - First release.
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