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FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1) 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 post bug reports on <a href="http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic" title="http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic">http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic</a> Foomatic Project 2001-05-07 FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)