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foomatic-compiledb (1)

Name

foomatic-compiledb - Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database

Synopsis

foomatic-compiledb [ -t type ] [

Description




User Commands                               FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)



NAME
     foomatic-compiledb  -  Compile  the  Foomatic printer/driver
     database

SYNOPSIS
     foomatic-compiledb [ -t type ] [


DESCRIPTION
     foomatic-compiledb generates all PPD files or Foomatic combo
     XML  files  for  all possible printer/driver combos, or only
     for a selected range of drivers.  It generally should not be
     necessary  except  for  people who want to generate a set of
     Foomatic data files for distribution. For configuring single
     printers foomatic-ppdfile(1) and especially foomatic-config-
     ure(1) will automagically compute just what they need.


  Options
     -t type   Output file type, either ppd or xml.


     -f        Force: Write into the destination  directory  even
               if it already exists.


     -j n      n = number of work processes to run


     driver ...
               only generate data files for these driver(s)



ATTRIBUTES
     See   attributes(5)   for   descriptions  of  the  following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |           ATTRIBUTE VALUE            |
     +---------------+--------------------------------------+
     |Availability   | print/cups/filter/foomatic-db-engine |
     +---------------+--------------------------------------+
     |Stability      | Volatile                             |
     +---------------+--------------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
     foomatic-ppdfile(1),foomatic-configure(1)


EXIT STATUS
     foomatic-compiledb returns  0  unless  something  unexpected
     happens.



Foomatic Project     Last change: 2001-05-07                    1






User Commands                               FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)



AUTHORS
     Manfred  Wassmann  <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de>  and  Till
     Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net> for the foomatic  project
     using output from the associated binary.


BUGS
     Existing  files  are always conserved instead of older files
     being overwritten. So deleting the destination directory (rm
     -rf  dir)  and  calling  foomatic-compiledb  without  the -f
     option is recommended.

     Please post bug reports on

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




NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community   source   was   downloaded   from   /foomatic-db-
     engine-3.0-20080903.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on  the
     open  source  community  website  at http://www.linuxfounda-
     tion.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/data-
     base/foomatic/.

























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