Changeset 3436 for pkpgcounter/trunk/NEWS
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- 10/06/08 00:22:07 (16 years ago)
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r3402 r3436 22 22 23 23 * 3.51 : 24 24 25 25 - Partial rewrite of the PostScript parser, with huge performance increase. 26 26 27 27 - Fixed a problem in the PostScript parser where the number of copies set with 28 e.g. "dvips -c 9 -o output.ps input.dvi" wasn't correctly detected. 28 e.g. "dvips -c 9 -o output.ps input.dvi" wasn't correctly detected. 29 29 30 30 - Increased accuracy in the PDF parser, with some speed expense but 31 31 some big room for future improvements. 32 32 33 33 * 3.50 : 34 34 35 35 - Added support for Canon BJ/BJC documents in page counting mode. 36 36 37 37 - Added support for Structured Fax documents in page counting mode. 38 38 39 39 - Added support for ASCII PNM (Netpbm) documents in page counting mode. 40 40 41 41 - Fixed a problem with the parsing of SPL1 (GDI) documents : all such 42 42 documents should now be correctly parsed. 43 43 44 44 - Improved the PCL3/4/5 parser. 45 45 46 46 * 3.40 : 47 47 48 48 - Fixed a major bug in the detection of OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) 49 49 files. 50 50 51 51 - Added support for page counting in Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...) 52 52 documents. 53 53 54 54 - Added support for ink accounting in Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...) 55 55 and OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) documents. 56 57 - Now automatically detects missing executable dependencies at runtime. 58 56 57 - Now automatically detects missing executable dependencies at runtime. 58 59 59 * 3.30 : 60 60 61 61 - Added support for all file formats supported by the Python Imaging 62 62 Library. 63 64 - Added a minimal parser for Hewlett-Packard LIDIL documents, as 63 64 - Added a minimal parser for Hewlett-Packard LIDIL documents, as 65 65 produced by the hpijs driver. 66 66 67 67 - Improved general reliability. 68 68 69 69 - Improved detection of PCL3/4/5 jobs. 70 71 - Major code cleaning. 72 70 71 - Major code cleaning. 72 73 73 * 3.20 : 74 74 75 75 - Added a minimal parser for Brother HBP documents. 76 76 77 77 - Added support for Canon ImageRunner commands to the PCLXL parser, 78 78 much like it was already done for the PCL3/4/5 parser. 79 79 80 80 * 3.10 : 81 81 82 82 - Added a minimal parser for ESC/PAGES03 style documents. 83 83 84 84 - Fixed another problem in the code handling the output of Canon's 85 85 ImageRunner printer drivers. 86 86 87 87 * 3.00 : 88 88 89 89 - Fixed a problem in the code handling the output of Canon's ImageRunner 90 90 printer drivers. 91 92 - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 93 91 92 - Licensing terms changed to GNU GPL v3.0 or higher. 93 94 94 * 2.18 : 95 95 96 96 - Fixed an incompatibility with Python v2.5 97 98 * 2.17 : 99 97 98 * 2.17 : 99 100 100 - Fixed problems in the handling of PJL number of copies (COPIES= and QTY=) 101 101 which caused the number of copies for each page to be squared. 102 103 * 2.16 : 104 102 103 * 2.16 : 104 105 105 - Fixed a problem in the PCL3/4/5 parser to accomodate line based 106 106 report generators which expect the printer to skip to next page 107 107 based on lines per page instead of sending a specific command. 108 108 109 109 * 2.15 : 110 110 111 111 - Fixed a regexp in the PDF parser which caused some files to be 112 112 incorrectly accounted for. 113 113 114 114 - Improved the detection of the number of copies in PostScript documents. 115 115 116 116 * 2.14 : 117 117 118 118 - Fixed a problem with some PS drivers which don't output %%Page: 119 119 comments. 120 121 * 2.13 : 122 120 121 * 2.13 : 122 123 123 - Nowrecognizes the GC colorspace if you only want to differentiate 124 124 grayscale pages from coloured pages. In this colorspace, the 125 125 percents are always "G : 100.0 C : 0.0" or "G : 0.0 C : 100.0" 126 126 respectively for a grayscale page and a coloured page. 127 127 128 128 * 2.12 : 129 129 130 130 - Fixed a problem with the PostScript parser. 131 131 132 132 * 2.11 : 133 133 134 134 - Improved overall robustness in ink accounting mode. 135 135 136 136 * 2.10 : 137 137 138 138 - Added a plain text parser, with support for both page counting and 139 139 ink coverage. 140 140 141 141 - Added a minimal SPL1 parser. 142 142 143 143 - Fixed a problem in the PCLXL parser related to Kyocera printer drivers. 144 144 145 145 * 2.00 : 146 146 147 147 - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch and is now 148 148 table driven. 149 149 150 150 - Improved the PostScript parser. 151 151 152 152 * 1.85 : 153 153 154 154 - Added support for Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) file format in page 155 155 counting mode, thanks to the work done by Aur�en Croc on 156 156 reverse engineering the file format. 157 157 158 158 * 1.85alpha : 159 159 160 160 - Added test document and program to generate the test document 161 161 to check the functionning of the ink coverage computation algorithm. 162 162 163 163 * 1.84 : 164 164 165 165 - Computation of ink coverage now works and is documented. 166 166 The supported file formats are : PS, PDF, PCLXL, PCL3/4/5, 167 167 DVI and TIFF. 168 168 169 169 * 1.84alpha : 170 170 171 171 - Added initial support for the computation of ink coverage. 172 172 See python analyzer.py --help for details. The same command 173 173 line options work for pkpgcounter, although it's not 174 174 documented yet. 175 175 176 176 * 1.83 : 177 178 - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection. 179 177 178 - Fixed a famously known 'brown paper bag' issue with file type autodetection. 179 180 180 * 1.82 : 181 182 - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output. 183 181 182 - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser to detect recent Xerox drivers' output. 183 184 184 * 1.81 : 185 185 186 186 - Improved the gs+Acrobat Reader fix done in 1.78. 187 187 188 188 * 1.80 : 189 189 190 190 - Added support for Zenographics ZjStream input format. 191 191 192 192 * 1.79 : 193 193 194 194 - Fixed a small problem in PostScript parser with dvips output. 195 195 196 196 * 1.78 : 197 197 198 198 - Launches gs less often when printing is done from Acrobat 199 199 Reader. 200 201 * 1.77 : 202 200 201 * 1.77 : 202 203 203 - Fixed some problems with the code introduced in 1.76. 204 204 205 205 - Improved PCLXL parser's speed by almost 10%. 206 206 207 207 * 1.76 : 208 208 209 209 - Improved the PCLXL parser wrt undocumented tags. 210 210 211 211 - Preliminary support for Kyocera Prescribe commands. 212 212 213 213 * 1.75 : 214 214 215 215 - Added preliminary support for Canon ImageRunner's "LIPS" or "UFR" 216 (I don't know which) Page Description Language. 217 216 (I don't know which) Page Description Language. 217 218 218 * 1.74 : 219 219 220 220 - Fixed a problem in the retrieval of named media sizes in PCLXL. 221 221 222 222 - Changed copyright years. 223 223 224 224 * 1.73 : 225 225 226 226 - Fixed duplex detection code in PCL3/4/5 parser. 227 227 228 228 - Fixed PCLXL detection code. 229 229 230 230 - Fixed retrieval of custom media types' names in PCLXL. 231 231 232 232 - Added inactive code to compute ink coverage ala PrintBill. 233 233 234 234 * 1.72 : 235 235 236 236 - Improved heuristic to detect when ghostscript has to be used to do 237 237 the parsing. 238 238 239 239 * 1.71 : 240 240 241 241 - Now uses ghostscript as the parser when the PS stream was created by a 242 242 particular MSWindows driver. 243 243 244 244 - Only complains about Psyco missing at install time, and stays 245 245 quiet when running without Psyco. 246 246 247 247 * 1.70 : 248 248 249 249 - Fixed some PJL escaping issue in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers. 250 250 251 251 * 1.69 : 252 253 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 254 252 253 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 254 255 255 - Improved PCLXL parser wrt PJL stuff. 256 256 257 257 * 1.68 : 258 258 259 259 - Improved PostScript parser. 260 260 261 261 * 1.67 : 262 262 263 263 - Improved PostScript parser. 264 265 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 266 267 * 1.66 : 268 264 265 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 266 267 * 1.66 : 268 269 269 - Improved PCLXL parser. 270 271 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 272 270 271 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 272 273 273 * 1.65 : 274 274 275 275 - Improved PostScript parser. 276 277 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 278 276 277 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 278 279 279 * 1.64 : 280 281 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 282 280 281 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 282 283 283 * 1.63 : 284 284 285 285 - Now handles PJL statements to extract number of copies, duplex mode 286 286 and paper size in the PCLXL and PCL3/4/5 parsers. 287 287 288 288 * 1.62 : 289 289 290 290 - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCLXL parser. 291 291 292 292 - Better handling of the number of copies in the PCL3/4/5 parser. 293 293 294 294 * 1.61 : 295 296 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 297 295 296 - Improved PCL3/4/5 parser. 297 298 298 - Better handling of the number of copies in the PostScript parser. 299 299 Now the number can be different from page to page. 300 301 * 1.60 : 302 300 301 * 1.60 : 302 303 303 - Improved PCLXL parser. 304 304 305 305 * 1.59 : 306 306 307 307 - Major rewrite of the PDF parser to correctly handle all line endings. 308 308 309 309 * 1.58 : 310 310 311 311 - Fix for PDF files which contain several versions of the same PDF object. 312 312 313 313 - Doesn't break when python-psyco is not available. 314 315 * 1.57 : 316 317 - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 318 314 315 * 1.57 : 316 317 - Fixed a recently introduced bug in binary postscript handling code. 318 319 319 * 1.56 : 320 320 321 321 - Renamed the library from pdlanalyzer into pkpgpdls to avoid problems 322 322 when the code will be integrated back into PyKota. 323 324 * 1.55 : 325 323 324 * 1.55 : 325 326 326 - Added support for OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents. 327 327 328 328 * 1.54 : 329 329 330 330 - Added online documentation and a manual page. 331 332 * 1.53 : 333 331 332 * 1.53 : 333 334 334 - Moved code around to improve maintainability. 335 336 * 1.52 : 337 335 336 * 1.52 : 337 338 338 - Added support for the TIFF format. 339 340 * 1.51 : 341 339 340 * 1.51 : 341 342 342 - Added support for the DVI format. 343 343 344 344 * 1.50 : 345 345 346 346 - Major code changes to modularize. The pkpgcounter command line tool 347 347 is now just an almost empty skeleton, which uses the pdlanalyzer 348 348 library. 349 350 - Several improvements to the parsing code. 351 349 350 - Several improvements to the parsing code. 351 352 352 * 1.00 : 353 353