| 1 | .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.36. |
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| 2 | .TH PKPGCOUNTER "1" "November 2007" "C@LL - Conseil Internet & Logiciels Libres" "User Commands" |
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| 3 | .SH NAME |
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| 4 | pkpgcounter \- count number of pages required to print various types of documents |
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| 5 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 6 | pkpgcounter v3.40 (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet |
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| 7 | .PP |
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| 8 | pkpgcounter is a generic Page Description Language parser. |
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| 9 | .PP |
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| 10 | pkpgcounter parses any number of input files and/or its standard input |
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| 11 | and outputs the number of pages needed to print these documents. |
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| 12 | .PP |
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| 13 | pkpgcounter can also compute the percent of ink coverage in different |
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| 14 | colorspaces for several file formats. |
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| 15 | .PP |
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| 16 | pkpgcounter currently recognizes the following document formats : |
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| 17 | .IP |
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| 18 | * PostScript (both DSC compliant and binary) |
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| 19 | * PDF |
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| 20 | * PCLXL (aka PCL6) |
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| 21 | * PCL3/4/5 |
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| 22 | * DVI |
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| 23 | * OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) |
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| 24 | * Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...) |
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| 25 | * Plain text |
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| 26 | * TIFF |
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| 27 | * Several other image formats |
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| 28 | * ESC/P2 |
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| 29 | * Zenographics ZjStream |
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| 30 | * Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) |
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| 31 | * Samsung SPL1 |
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| 32 | * ESC/PageS03 |
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| 33 | * Brother HBP |
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| 34 | * Hewlett\-Packard LIDIL (hpijs) |
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| 35 | .PP |
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| 36 | The seven latter ones, as well as some TIFF documents, are currently |
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| 37 | only supported in page counting mode. |
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| 38 | .PP |
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| 39 | command line usage : |
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| 40 | .IP |
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| 41 | pkpgcounter [options] [files] |
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| 42 | .PP |
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| 43 | options : |
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| 44 | .TP |
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| 45 | \fB\-v\fR | \fB\-\-version\fR |
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| 46 | Prints pkpgcounter's version number then exits. |
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| 47 | .TP |
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| 48 | \fB\-h\fR | \fB\-\-help\fR |
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| 49 | Prints this message then exits. |
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| 50 | .TP |
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| 51 | \fB\-d\fR | \fB\-\-debug\fR |
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| 52 | Activate debug mode. |
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| 53 | .TP |
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| 54 | \fB\-cCOLORSPACE\fR, \fB\-\-colorspace\fR=\fICOLORSPACE\fR |
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| 55 | Activate the computation of ink usage, and defines the |
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| 56 | colorspace to use. Supported values are 'BW' (Black), |
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| 57 | \&'RGB', 'CMYK', 'CMY', and 'GC' (Grayscale vs Color). |
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| 58 | \&'GC' is useful if you only need to differentiate |
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| 59 | grayscale pages from coloured pages but don't care |
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| 60 | about ink usage per se. |
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| 61 | .TP |
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| 62 | \fB\-rRESOLUTION\fR, \fB\-\-resolution\fR=\fIRESOLUTION\fR |
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| 63 | The resolution in DPI to use when checking ink usage. |
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| 64 | Lower resolution is faster but less accurate. Default |
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| 65 | is 72 dpi. |
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| 66 | .PP |
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| 67 | examples : |
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| 68 | .IP |
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| 69 | \f(CW$ pkpgcounter file1.ps file2.escp2 file3.pclxl <file4.pcl345\fR |
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| 70 | .IP |
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| 71 | Will launch pkpgcounter and will output the total number of pages |
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| 72 | needed to print all the documents specified. |
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| 73 | .IP |
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| 74 | \f(CW$ pkpgcounter \-\-colorspace bw \-\-resolution 150 file1.ps\fR |
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| 75 | .IP |
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| 76 | Will output the percent of black ink needed on each page of |
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| 77 | the file1.ps file rendered at 150 dpi. |
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| 78 | .PP |
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| 79 | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 80 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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| 81 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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| 82 | (at your option) any later version. |
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| 83 | .PP |
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| 84 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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| 85 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 86 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 87 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 88 | .PP |
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| 89 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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| 90 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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| 91 | .PP |
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| 92 | Please e\-mail bugs to: alet@librelogiciel.com |
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