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-indepen-
       dent  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  speci-
       fied, 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 sup-
            plied, 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 send bug reports to foomatic-devel@linuxprinting.org.

Foomatic Project                  2001-05-07               FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)