Changeset 368 for pkpgcounter/trunk

Timestamp:

08/26/06 23:07:11 (18 years ago)

Author:

jerome

Message:

Now exposes the possibility to compute ink coverage.
Gives credit where credit is due.

Location:

pkpgcounter/trunk

Files:

• CREDITS (modified) (1 diff)
• README (modified) (3 diffs)

pkpgcounter/trunk/CREDITS

@@ -24 +24 @@
   
   - Eduardo Gielamo Oliveira & Rodolfo Broco Manin : initial PCL parser.
+  
   - Valcir C. Vargas : helped on PCL3GUI support.
+  
+  - Daniel Franklin : pkpgcounter's algorithm for the computation 
+    of ink coverage comes from Daniel's PrintBill project.
 
 

pkpgcounter/trunk/README

@@ -42 +42 @@
         - Zenographics ZjStream
         
-When launched, pkpgcounter prints on its standard output a single 
-integer representing the total number of pages in all the files 
-which filenames you've passed on the command line. 
+In addition to counting pages, pkpgcounter can also compute the        
+ink coverage for the following document types :
+
+        - PostScript (both DSC compliant and binary)
+        
+        - PDF
+        
+        - TIFF
+        
+Other formats will be supported in the future for ink coverage.        
+
+IMPORTANT : To compute ink coverage, pkpgcounter relies on both
+the Python Imaging Library (PIL) and GhostScript (gs) software
+to be installed.
+
+By default, when launched pkpgcounter prints on its standard output 
+a single integer representing the total number of pages in all the 
+files which filenames you've passed on the command line. 
 
 With no argument, or with a single dash in non-option arguments,
@@ -51 +66 @@
 representing the files to parse.
 
-In the future other possibilities will be added.        
+See pkpgcounter --help for details.
 
 =============================================================================
@@ -123 +138 @@
 =============================================================================
 
+pkpgcounter's ink coverage algorithm for the CMYK colorspace is a 
+direct Python port from the PrintBill project by Daniel Franklin. 
+PrintBill is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public 
+License of the Free Software Foundation, just like pkpgcounter. The 
+algorithms used for the other colorspaces are a complete rewrite of 
+PrintBill's algorithms using both Python and the Python Imaging 
+Library's facilities. 
+
+=============================================================================
+
 Please e-mail bugs to : alet@librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet)