| 1 | # $Id$ |
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| 3 | pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser |
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| 5 | (c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com> |
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| 6 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 7 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 8 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or |
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| 9 | (at your option) any later version. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 12 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 13 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 14 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 15 | |
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| 16 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 17 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software |
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| 18 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | ============================================================================= |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | pkpgcounter is a generic Page Description Language parser. |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | It can currently compute the number of pages in several types of files : |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | - PostScript (both DSC compliant and binary) |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | - PDF |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | - PCL3/4/5 |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | - PCLXL (aka PCL6) |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | - ESC/P2 |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | When launched, pkpgcounter prints on its standard output a single |
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| 37 | integer representing the total number of pages in all the files |
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| 38 | which filenames you've passed on the command line. |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | With no argument, or with a single dash in non-option arguments, |
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| 41 | pkpgcounter reads datas to parse from its standard input in addition |
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| 42 | to other non-options arguments which are treated as filenames |
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| 43 | representing the files to parse. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | In the future other possibilities will be added. |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | ============================================================================= |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | Installation : |
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| 50 | -------------- |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | 0 - Download pkpgcounter from : |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/pkpgcounter/action_Presentation |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | and extract it : |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | $ tar -zxf pkpgcounter-x.yy.tar.gz |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | where x.yy is pkpgcounter' version number. |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | 1 - Run the installation script : |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | $ python setup.py install |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | This will usually install the pkpgcounter into /usr/bin and |
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| 67 | the library into /usr/lib/python2.?/site-packages/pdlanalyzer/ |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | 2 - Use pkpgcounter : |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | $ pkpgcounter file1.ps file2.pclxl ... <fileN.escp2 |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | pkpgcounter will display the total size in pages of all the files |
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| 74 | passed on the command line. |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | 3 - That's all ! |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | ============================================================================= |
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| 79 | |
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| 80 | Troubleshooting : |
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| 81 | ----------------- |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | If pkpgcounter gives incorrect results to you, please make an incorrectly |
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| 84 | parsed data file available to us on some website, and tell us which |
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| 85 | driver was used. |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | ============================================================================= |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | Please e-mail bugs to : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet) |
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