NAME
foomatic-ppdfile - Generate a PPD file for a given
printer/driver combo
SYNOPSIS
foomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d <driver>] -p
<printerid>
foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern]
foomatic-ppdfile -h
DESCRIPTION
The first form of the foomatic-ppdfile
to compute the spooler-independent Foomatic PPD file for any valid
printer/driver combo available in the Foomatic database, both for
printing with foomatic-rip(1)
and for applications/clients being able to access the printer's
options. The PPD file is returned on standard ouput. If the driver
is not specified, the default driver is used.
The second form of the foomatic-ppdfile program will
search the printer database and return either all printer entries
or those whose name and/or model information match a regular
expression.
The last form prints a help message and exits.
Options
- -d drivername
- The (optional) driver name to use. If the driver name is not
supplied, the default or first driver in the printers compatible
driver list is used.
- -p
- printer id The printer id.
- -w
- Return a PPD file that conforms to the Microsoft Windows format
limitations.
- -A
- Return all printer entries in the database.
- -Ppattern
- Return all printer entries in the database which match the
regular expression.
SEE ALSO
- foomatic-rip(1)
EXIT STATUS
foomatic-ppdfile returns 0 on success, 1
otherwise.
AUTHOR
Manfred Wassmann <>
for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.
Modified and updated by Patrick Powell <papowell at
astart.com>.
BUGS
None so far.
Please send bug reports to foomatic-devel@linuxprinting.org.