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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
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19=============================================================================
20
21pkpgcounter News :
22
23  * 3.30 :
24 
25    - Added a minimal parser for Hewlett-Packard LIDIL documents, as
26      produced by the hpijs driver.
27     
28  * 3.20 :
29   
30    - Added a minimal parser for Brother HBP documents.
31   
32    - Added support for Canon ImageRunner commands to the PCLXL parser,
33      much like it was already done for the PCL3/4/5 parser.
34     
35  * 3.10 :
36 
37    - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents.
38   
39    - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's
40      ImageRunner printer drivers.
41   
42  * 3.00 :
43 
44    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
45      printer drivers.
46     
47    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 
48   
49  * 2.18 :
50 
51    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
52   
53  * 2.17 :
54 
55    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
56      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
57   
58  * 2.16 :
59 
60    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
61      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
62      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
63     
64  * 2.15 :
65   
66    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
67      incorrectly accounted for.
68   
69    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
70   
71  * 2.14 :
72 
73    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
74      comments.
75     
76  * 2.13 :
77   
78    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
79      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
80      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
81      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
82 
83  * 2.12 :
84 
85    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
86   
87  * 2.11 :
88 
89    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
90   
91  * 2.10 :
92 
93    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
94      ink coverage.
95   
96    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
97   
98    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
99   
100  * 2.00 :
101 
102    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
103      table driven.
104     
105    - Improved the PostScript parser.
106   
107  * 1.85 :
108 
109    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
110      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
111      reverse engineering the file format.
112     
113  * 1.85alpha :
114 
115    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
116      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
117     
118  * 1.84 :
119 
120    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
121      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
122      DVI and TIFF.
123     
124  * 1.84alpha :
125 
126    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
127      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
128      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
129      documented yet.
130   
131  * 1.83 :
132 
133    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
134   
135  * 1.82 :
136 
137    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
138   
139  * 1.81 :
140 
141    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
142   
143  * 1.80 :
144 
145    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
146   
147  * 1.79 :
148 
149    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
150   
151  * 1.78 :
152 
153    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
154      Reader.
155   
156  * 1.77 :
157 
158    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
159   
160    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
161   
162  * 1.76 :
163 
164    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
165   
166    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
167   
168  * 1.75 :
169 
170    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
171      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
172     
173  * 1.74 :
174 
175    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
176   
177    - Changed copyright years.
178   
179  * 1.73 :
180 
181    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
182   
183    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
184   
185    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
186   
187    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
188   
189  * 1.72 :
190 
191    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
192      the parsing.
193   
194  * 1.71 :
195 
196    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
197      particular MSWindows driver.
198   
199    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
200      quiet when running without Psyco.
201     
202  * 1.70 :
203 
204    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
205   
206  * 1.69 :
207 
208    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
209   
210    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
211   
212  * 1.68 :
213 
214    - Improved PostScript parser.
215   
216  * 1.67 :
217 
218    - Improved PostScript parser.
219   
220    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
221   
222  * 1.66 :
223 
224    - Improved PCLXL parser.
225   
226    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
227   
228  * 1.65 :
229   
230    - Improved PostScript parser.
231   
232    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
233   
234  * 1.64 :
235   
236    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
237   
238  * 1.63 :
239 
240    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
241      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
242   
243  * 1.62 :
244 
245    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
246   
247    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
248     
249  * 1.61 :
250 
251    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
252   
253    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
254      Now the number can be different from page to page.
255   
256  * 1.60 :
257 
258    - Improved PCLXL parser.
259   
260  * 1.59 :
261   
262    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
263     
264  * 1.58 :
265 
266    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
267   
268    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
269   
270  * 1.57 :
271 
272    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
273   
274  * 1.56 :
275 
276    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
277      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
278     
279  * 1.55 :
280 
281    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
282   
283  * 1.54 :
284   
285    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
286   
287  * 1.53 :
288 
289    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
290   
291  * 1.52 :
292 
293    - Added support for the TIFF format.
294   
295  * 1.51 :
296 
297    - Added support for the DVI format.
298   
299  * 1.50 :
300 
301    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
302      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
303      library.
304     
305    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
306     
307  * 1.00 :
308
309    - First release.
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