# $Id$ pkpgcounter : a generic Page Description Language parser (c) 2003-2019 Jerome Alet This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . ============================================================================= pkpgcounter is a generic Page Description Language parser which can either compute the number of pages in a document, or compute the percent of ink coverage needed to print each page, in different colorspaces. pkpgcounter currently recognizes the following document formats : - PostScript (both DSC compliant and binary) - PDF - PCL3/4/5 - PCLXL (aka PCL6) - DVI - OpenDocument (ISO/IEC DIS 26300) - Microsoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...) - Plain text - TIFF - Several other image formats - ESC/P2 - Zenographics ZjStream - Samsung QPDL (aka SPL2) - Samsung SPL1 - ESC/PageS03 - Brother HBP - Brother XL2HB - Hewlett-Packard Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language - Structured Fax - Canon BJ/BJC - ASCII PNM (Netpbm) The eleven latter ones, as well as some TIFF documents, are currently only supported in page counting mode. 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, pkpgcounter reads datas to parse from its standard input in addition to other non-options arguments which are treated as filenames representing the files to parse. See pkpgcounter --help for details and examples. ============================================================================= Installation : -------------- 0 - Download pkpgcounter from : http://www.pykota.com/software/pkpgcounter/download and extract it : $ tar -zxf pkpgcounter-x.yy.tar.gz where x.yy is pkpgcounter' version number. 1 - Run the installation script : $ python setup.py install This will usually install the pkpgcounter into /usr/bin and the library into /usr/lib/python2.?/site-packages/pkpgpdls/ 2 - Use pkpgcounter : $ pkpgcounter file1.ps file2.pclxl ...