[cups.general] [ANNOUNCE] pkpgcounter v2.10

[Jerome Alet]

Hi there,

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of pkpgcounter v2.10

pkpgcounter is a Python written, GNU GPLed, generic Page Description
Language parser, available from :

  http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/

pkpgcounter's basic purpose is to count pages in printable 
documents, usually the output of printer drivers, making it an 
important brick for any print accounting software. In particular it 
is used by both the PyKota and JASmine print accounting solutions 
for CUPS. 

For some file formats, pkpgcounter can now also compute the percent 
of paper covered with each ink color in a particular colorspace. The 
supported colorspaces are BW, RGB, CMY and CMYK. 

Summary of recent changes :

        - A plain text parser was finally added, making raw text files
          be accounted correctly in both page count and ink coverage
          modes. In ink coverage mode, either a2ps or enscript can be
          automatically used for intermediate file format conversion.
          
        - The PCL3/4/5 parser was rewritten from scratch, fixing many
          accounting problems related to HPGL2 chunks and the like.
          
        - Samsung QPDL (aka) SPL2 is now supported in page counting mode.  
        
        - Samsung's SPL1 is now supported in page counting mode (not very
          well tested yet though).
        
        - A test document is now included to check the functionning
          of the ink coverage computation.
          
        - Minor problems were fixed in the PostScript and PCLXL parsers.  
          
Download :          

http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/download/tarballs/pkpgcounter-2.10.tar.gz

Thank you for reading.

Please report any problem ASAP.

Jerome Alet