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Improved documentation wrt the newly added dependency on ImageMagick?
for the computation of ink usage in image file formats.

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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 support for all file formats supported by PIL.
26   
27    - Added a minimal parser for Hewlett-Packard LIDIL documents, as
28      produced by the hpijs driver.
29     
30    - Major code cleaning. 
31     
32  * 3.20 :
33   
34    - Added a minimal parser for Brother HBP documents.
35   
36    - Added support for Canon ImageRunner commands to the PCLXL parser,
37      much like it was already done for the PCL3/4/5 parser.
38     
39  * 3.10 :
40 
41    - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents.
42   
43    - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's
44      ImageRunner printer drivers.
45   
46  * 3.00 :
47 
48    - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner
49      printer drivers.
50     
51    - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 
52   
53  * 2.18 :
54 
55    - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5
56   
57  * 2.17 :
58 
59    - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=)
60      which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared.
61   
62  * 2.16 :
63 
64    - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based
65      report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page
66      based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command.
67     
68  * 2.15 :
69   
70    - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be
71      incorrectly accounted for.
72   
73    - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents.
74   
75  * 2.14 :
76 
77    - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page:
78      comments.
79     
80  * 2.13 :
81   
82    - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate
83      grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the
84      percents are always "G : 100.0   C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0   C : 100.0"
85      respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page.
86 
87  * 2.12 :
88 
89    - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser.
90   
91  * 2.11 :
92 
93    - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode.
94   
95  * 2.10 :
96 
97    - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and
98      ink coverage.
99   
100    - Added a minimal SPL1 parser.
101   
102    - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers.
103   
104  * 2.00 :
105 
106    - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now
107      table driven.
108     
109    - Improved the PostScript parser.
110   
111  * 1.85 :
112 
113    - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page
114      counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on
115      reverse engineering the file format.
116     
117  * 1.85alpha :
118 
119    - Added test document and program to generate the test document
120      to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm.
121     
122  * 1.84 :
123 
124    - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented.
125      The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5,
126      DVI and TIFF.
127     
128  * 1.84alpha :
129 
130    - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage.
131      See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command
132      line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not
133      documented yet.
134   
135  * 1.83 :
136 
137    - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection.
138   
139  * 1.82 :
140 
141    - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output.
142   
143  * 1.81 :
144 
145    - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78.
146   
147  * 1.80 :
148 
149    - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format.
150   
151  * 1.79 :
152 
153    - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output.
154   
155  * 1.78 :
156 
157    - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat
158      Reader.
159   
160  * 1.77 :
161 
162    - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76.
163   
164    - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%.
165   
166  * 1.76 :
167 
168    - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags.
169   
170    - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands.
171   
172  * 1.75 :
173 
174    - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR"
175      (I don't know which) Page Description Language.
176     
177  * 1.74 :
178 
179    - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL.
180   
181    - Changed copyright years.
182   
183  * 1.73 :
184 
185    - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser.
186   
187    - Fixed PCLXL detection code.
188   
189    - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL.
190   
191    - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill.
192   
193  * 1.72 :
194 
195    - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do
196      the parsing.
197   
198  * 1.71 :
199 
200    - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a
201      particular MSWindows driver.
202   
203    - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays
204      quiet when running without Psyco.
205     
206  * 1.70 :
207 
208    - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
209   
210  * 1.69 :
211 
212    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
213   
214    - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff.
215   
216  * 1.68 :
217 
218    - Improved PostScript parser.
219   
220  * 1.67 :
221 
222    - Improved PostScript parser.
223   
224    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
225   
226  * 1.66 :
227 
228    - Improved PCLXL parser.
229   
230    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
231   
232  * 1.65 :
233   
234    - Improved PostScript parser.
235   
236    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
237   
238  * 1.64 :
239   
240    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
241   
242  * 1.63 :
243 
244    - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode
245      and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers.
246   
247  * 1.62 :
248 
249    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser.
250   
251    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser.
252     
253  * 1.61 :
254 
255    - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser.
256   
257    - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
258      Now the number can be different from page to page.
259   
260  * 1.60 :
261 
262    - Improved PCLXL parser.
263   
264  * 1.59 :
265   
266    - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings.
267     
268  * 1.58 :
269 
270    - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object.
271   
272    - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available.
273   
274  * 1.57 :
275 
276    - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 
277   
278  * 1.56 :
279 
280    - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems
281      when the code will be integrated back into PyKota.
282     
283  * 1.55 :
284 
285    - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents.
286   
287  * 1.54 :
288   
289    - Added online documentation and a manual page.
290   
291  * 1.53 :
292 
293    - Moved code around to improve maintainability.
294   
295  * 1.52 :
296 
297    - Added support for the TIFF format.
298   
299  * 1.51 :
300 
301    - Added support for the DVI format.
302   
303  * 1.50 :
304 
305    - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool
306      is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer
307      library.
308     
309    - Several improvements to the parsing code. 
310     
311  * 1.00 :
312
313    - First release.
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