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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
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19=============================================================================
20
21pkpgcounter News :
22
23  * 3.10 :
24 
25    - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents.
26   
27    - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's
28      ImageRunner printer drivers.
29   
30  * 3.00 :
31 
32    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
33      printer drivers.
34     
35    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 
36   
37  * 2.18 :
38 
39    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
40   
41  * 2.17 :
42 
43    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
44      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
45   
46  * 2.16 :
47 
48    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
49      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
50      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
51     
52  * 2.15 :
53   
54    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
55      incorrectly accounted for.
56   
57    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
58   
59  * 2.14 :
60 
61    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
62      comments.
63     
64  * 2.13 :
65   
66    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
67      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
68      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
69      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
70 
71  * 2.12 :
72 
73    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
74   
75  * 2.11 :
76 
77    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
78   
79  * 2.10 :
80 
81    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
82      ink coverage.
83   
84    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
85   
86    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
87   
88  * 2.00 :
89 
90    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
91      table driven.
92     
93    - Improved the PostScript parser.
94   
95  * 1.85 :
96 
97    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
98      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
99      reverse engineering the file format.
100     
101  * 1.85alpha :
102 
103    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
104      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
105     
106  * 1.84 :
107 
108    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
109      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
110      DVI and TIFF.
111     
112  * 1.84alpha :
113 
114    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
115      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
116      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
117      documented yet.
118   
119  * 1.83 :
120 
121    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
122   
123  * 1.82 :
124 
125    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
126   
127  * 1.81 :
128 
129    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
130   
131  * 1.80 :
132 
133    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
134   
135  * 1.79 :
136 
137    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
138   
139  * 1.78 :
140 
141    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
142      Reader.
143   
144  * 1.77 :
145 
146    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
147   
148    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
149   
150  * 1.76 :
151 
152    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
153   
154    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
155   
156  * 1.75 :
157 
158    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
159      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
160     
161  * 1.74 :
162 
163    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
164   
165    - Changed copyright years.
166   
167  * 1.73 :
168 
169    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
170   
171    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
172   
173    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
174   
175    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
176   
177  * 1.72 :
178 
179    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
180      the parsing.
181   
182  * 1.71 :
183 
184    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
185      particular MSWindows driver.
186   
187    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
188      quiet when running without Psyco.
189     
190  * 1.70 :
191 
192    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
193   
194  * 1.69 :
195 
196    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
197   
198    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
199   
200  * 1.68 :
201 
202    - Improved PostScript parser.
203   
204  * 1.67 :
205 
206    - Improved PostScript parser.
207   
208    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
209   
210  * 1.66 :
211 
212    - Improved PCLXL parser.
213   
214    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
215   
216  * 1.65 :
217   
218    - Improved PostScript parser.
219   
220    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
221   
222  * 1.64 :
223   
224    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
225   
226  * 1.63 :
227 
228    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
229      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
230   
231  * 1.62 :
232 
233    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
234   
235    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
236     
237  * 1.61 :
238 
239    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
240   
241    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
242      Now the number can be different from page to page.
243   
244  * 1.60 :
245 
246    - Improved PCLXL parser.
247   
248  * 1.59 :
249   
250    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
251     
252  * 1.58 :
253 
254    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
255   
256    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
257   
258  * 1.57 :
259 
260    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
261   
262  * 1.56 :
263 
264    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
265      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
266     
267  * 1.55 :
268 
269    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
270   
271  * 1.54 :
272   
273    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
274   
275  * 1.53 :
276 
277    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
278   
279  * 1.52 :
280 
281    - Added support for the TIFF format.
282   
283  * 1.51 :
284 
285    - Added support for the DVI format.
286   
287  * 1.50 :
288 
289    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
290      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
291      library.
292     
293    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
294     
295  * 1.00 :
296
297    - First release.
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