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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