FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)

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 output. 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 <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> 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 post bug reports on

http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic