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15 .TH ppdc 1 "CUPS" "15 February 2012" "Apple Inc."
17 ppdc \- cups ppd compiler
30 ] [-m] [-t] [ -v ] [ -z ] [ --cr ] [ --crlf ] [ --lf ]
33 \fIppdc\fR compiles PPDC source files into one or more PPD
34 files. \fBThis program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of
37 The \fI-D\fR option sets the named variable for use in the
38 source file. It is equivalent to using the #define directive
41 The \fI-I\fR option specifies an alternate include directory;
42 multiple \fI-I\fR options can be supplied to add additional
45 The \fI-c\fR option specifies a single message catalog file in GNU
46 gettext source format (filename.po) to be used for localization.
48 The \fI-d\fR option specifies the output directory for PPD
49 files. The default output directory is "ppd".
51 The \fI-l\fR option specifies one or more languages to use when
52 localizing the PPD file(s). The default language is "en"
53 (English). Separate multiple languages with commas, for example
54 "de_DE,en_UK,es_ES,es_MX,es_US,fr_CA,fr_FR,it_IT" will create PPD
55 files with German, UK English, Spanish (Spain, Mexico, and US),
56 French (France and Canada), and Italian languages in each file.
58 The \fI-m\fR option specifies that the output filename should be
59 based on the ModelName value instead of FileName or PCFilenName.
61 The \fI-t\fR option specifies that PPD files should be tested instead
64 The \fI-v\fR option provides more verbose output, basically a
65 running status of which files are being loaded or written.
67 The \fI-z\fR option generates compressed PPD files (filename.ppd.gz).
68 The default is to generate uncompressed PPD files.
70 The \fI--cr\fR, \fI--crlf\fR, and \fI--lf\fR options specify the
71 line ending to use - carriage return, carriage return and line feed,
72 or line feed. The default is to use the line feed character alone.
74 ppdhtml(1), ppdi(1), ppdmerge(1), ppdpo(1), ppdcfile(5)
76 http://localhost:631/help
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