PKPGCOUNTER(1) User Commands PKPGCOUNTER(1)NAMEpkpgcounter - count number of pages required to print various types of
documents
DESCRIPTIONpkpgcounter 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) * Mi‐
crosoft Word (c) (tm) (r) (etc...) * Plain text * TIFF * Sev‐
eral other image formats * ESC/P2 * Zenographics ZjStream * Sam‐
sung 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 col‐
orspace 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 MER‐
CHANTABILITY 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
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