ppdc
(1)
Name
ppdc - cups ppd compiler
Synopsis
ppdc [ -D name[=value] ] [ -I include-directory ] [ -c mes-
sage-catalog ] [ -d output-directory ] [ -l language(s) ]
[-m] [-t] [ -v ] [ -z ] [ --cr ] [ --crlf ] [ --lf ] source-
file
Description
Apple Inc. ppdc(1)
NAME
ppdc - cups ppd compiler
SYNOPSIS
ppdc [ -D name[=value] ] [ -I include-directory ] [ -c mes-
sage-catalog ] [ -d output-directory ] [ -l language(s) ]
[-m] [-t] [ -v ] [ -z ] [ --cr ] [ --crlf ] [ --lf ] source-
file
DESCRIPTION
ppdc compiles PPDC source files into one or more PPD files.
The -D option sets the named variable for use in the source
file. It is equivalent to using the #define directive in the
source file.
The -I option specifies an alternate include directory; mul-
tiple -I options can be supplied to add additional directo-
ries.
The -c option specifies a single message catalog file in GNU
gettext source format (filename.po) to be used for localiza-
tion.
The -d option specifies the output directory for PPD files.
The default output directory is "ppd".
The -l option specifies one or more languages to use when
localizing the PPD file(s). The default language is "en"
(English). Separate multiple languages with commas, for
example "de_DE,en_UK,es_ES,es_MX,es_US,fr_CA,fr_FR,it_IT"
will create PPD files with German, UK English, Spanish
(Spain, Mexico, and US), French (France and Canada), and
Italian languages in each file.
The -m option specifies that the output filename should be
based on the ModelName value instead of FileName or PCFilen-
Name.
The -t option specifies that PPD files should be tested
instead of generated.
The -v option provides more verbose output, basically a run-
ning status of which files are being loaded or written.
The -z option generates compressed PPD files (file-
name.ppd.gz). The default is to generate uncompressed PPD
files.
The --cr, --crlf, and --lf options specify the line ending
to use - carriage return, carriage return and line feed, or
line feed. The default is to use the line feed character
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alone.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | print/cups |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
ppdhtml(1), ppdi(1), ppdmerge(1), ppdpo(1), ppdcfile(5)
http://localhost:631/help
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2009 by Apple Inc.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.4.5/cups-1.4.5-source.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.cups.org/.
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