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v3.20 is out with support for Brother HBP and improved PCLXL
parser wrt the inclusion of Canon ImageRunner? commands.

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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>
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19=============================================================================
20
21pkpgcounter News :
22
23  * 3.20 :
24   
25    - Added a minimal parser for Brother HBP documents.
26   
27    - Added support for Canon ImageRunner commands to the PCLXL parser,
28      much like it was already done for the PCL3/4/5 parser.
29     
30  * 3.10 :
31 
32    - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents.
33   
34    - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's
35      ImageRunner printer drivers.
36   
37  * 3.00 :
38 
39    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
40      printer drivers.
41     
42    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 
43   
44  * 2.18 :
45 
46    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
47   
48  * 2.17 :
49 
50    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
51      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
52   
53  * 2.16 :
54 
55    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
56      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
57      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
58     
59  * 2.15 :
60   
61    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
62      incorrectly accounted for.
63   
64    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
65   
66  * 2.14 :
67 
68    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
69      comments.
70     
71  * 2.13 :
72   
73    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
74      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
75      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
76      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
77 
78  * 2.12 :
79 
80    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
81   
82  * 2.11 :
83 
84    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
85   
86  * 2.10 :
87 
88    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
89      ink coverage.
90   
91    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
92   
93    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
94   
95  * 2.00 :
96 
97    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
98      table driven.
99     
100    - Improved the PostScript parser.
101   
102  * 1.85 :
103 
104    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
105      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
106      reverse engineering the file format.
107     
108  * 1.85alpha :
109 
110    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
111      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
112     
113  * 1.84 :
114 
115    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
116      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
117      DVI and TIFF.
118     
119  * 1.84alpha :
120 
121    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
122      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
123      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
124      documented yet.
125   
126  * 1.83 :
127 
128    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
129   
130  * 1.82 :
131 
132    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
133   
134  * 1.81 :
135 
136    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
137   
138  * 1.80 :
139 
140    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
141   
142  * 1.79 :
143 
144    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
145   
146  * 1.78 :
147 
148    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
149      Reader.
150   
151  * 1.77 :
152 
153    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
154   
155    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
156   
157  * 1.76 :
158 
159    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
160   
161    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
162   
163  * 1.75 :
164 
165    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
166      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
167     
168  * 1.74 :
169 
170    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
171   
172    - Changed copyright years.
173   
174  * 1.73 :
175 
176    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
177   
178    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
179   
180    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
181   
182    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
183   
184  * 1.72 :
185 
186    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
187      the parsing.
188   
189  * 1.71 :
190 
191    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
192      particular MSWindows driver.
193   
194    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
195      quiet when running without Psyco.
196     
197  * 1.70 :
198 
199    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
200   
201  * 1.69 :
202 
203    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
204   
205    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
206   
207  * 1.68 :
208 
209    - Improved PostScript parser.
210   
211  * 1.67 :
212 
213    - Improved PostScript parser.
214   
215    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
216   
217  * 1.66 :
218 
219    - Improved PCLXL parser.
220   
221    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
222   
223  * 1.65 :
224   
225    - Improved PostScript parser.
226   
227    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
228   
229  * 1.64 :
230   
231    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
232   
233  * 1.63 :
234 
235    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
236      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
237   
238  * 1.62 :
239 
240    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
241   
242    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
243     
244  * 1.61 :
245 
246    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
247   
248    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
249      Now the number can be different from page to page.
250   
251  * 1.60 :
252 
253    - Improved PCLXL parser.
254   
255  * 1.59 :
256   
257    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
258     
259  * 1.58 :
260 
261    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
262   
263    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
264   
265  * 1.57 :
266 
267    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
268   
269  * 1.56 :
270 
271    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
272      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
273     
274  * 1.55 :
275 
276    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
277   
278  * 1.54 :
279   
280    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
281   
282  * 1.53 :
283 
284    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
285   
286  * 1.52 :
287 
288    - Added support for the TIFF format.
289   
290  * 1.51 :
291 
292    - Added support for the DVI format.
293   
294  * 1.50 :
295 
296    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
297      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
298      library.
299     
300    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
301     
302  * 1.00 :
303
304    - First release.
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