NAME

       pkpgcounter - count number of pages required to print various types of documents

DESCRIPTION

       pkpgcounter v3.50 (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Jerome Alet

       pkpgcounter is a generic Page Description Language parser.

       pkpgcounter  parses  any  number  of input files and/or its standard input and outputs the
       number of pages needed to print these documents.

       pkpgcounter can also compute the percent of ink  coverage  in  different  colorspaces  for
       several file formats.

       pkpgcounter currently recognizes the following document formats :

              *  PostScript (both DSC compliant and binary) * PDF * PCLXL (aka PCL6) * PCL3/4/5 *
              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   *
              Hewlett-Packard LIDIL (hpijs) * Structured Fax * Canon BJ/BJC * ASCII PNM (Netpbm)

       The  ten latter ones, as well as some TIFF documents, are currently only supported in page
       counting mode.

       command line usage :

              pkpgcounter [options] [files]

       options :

       -v | --version
              Prints pkpgcounter's version number then exits.

       -h | --help
              Prints this message then exits.

       -d | --debug
              Activate debug mode.

       -cCOLORSPACE, --colorspace=COLORSPACE
              Activate the computation of ink usage, and defines the colorspace to use. Supported
              values are 'BW' (Black), 'RGB', 'CMYK', 'CMY', and 'GC' (Grayscale vs Color).  'GC'
              is useful if you only need to differentiate grayscale pages from coloured pages but
              don't care about ink usage per se.

       -rRESOLUTION, --resolution=RESOLUTION
              The  resolution  in DPI to use when checking ink usage.  Lower resolution is faster
              but less accurate. Default is 72 dpi.

       examples :

              $ pkpgcounter file1.ps file2.escp2 file3.pclxl <file4.pcl345

              Will launch pkpgcounter and will output the total number of pages needed  to  print
              all the documents specified.

              $ pkpgcounter --colorspace bw --resolution 150 file1.ps

              Will  output  the  percent  of  black  ink needed on each page of the file1.ps file
              rendered at 150 dpi.

       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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

       Please e-mail bugs to: alet@librelogiciel.com