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9 <h1 class=
"title">ppdc(
1)
</h1>
10 <h2 class=
"title"><a name=
"NAME">Name
</a></h2>
11 ppdc - cups ppd compiler (deprecated)
12 <h2 class=
"title"><a name=
"SYNOPSIS">Synopsis
</a></h2>
15 <b>-D
</b><i>name
</i>[
<b>=
</b><i>value
</i>]
18 <i>include-directory
</i>
21 <i>message-catalog
</i>
24 <i>output-directory
</i>
44 <h2 class=
"title"><a name=
"DESCRIPTION">Description
</a></h2>
45 <b>ppdc
</b> compiles PPDC source files into one or more PPD files.
46 <b>This program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.
</b>
47 <h2 class=
"title"><a name=
"OPTIONS">Options
</a></h2>
48 <b>ppdc
</b> supports the following options:
50 <dt><b>-D
</b><i>name
</i>[
<b>=
</b><i>value
</i>]
51 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Sets the named variable for use in the source file.
52 It is equivalent to using the
<i>#define
</i> directive in the source file.
53 <dt><b>-I
</b><i>include-directory
</i>
54 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies an alternate include directory.
55 Multiple
<i>-I
</i> options can be supplied to add additional directories.
56 <dt><b>-c
</b><i>message-catalog
</i>
57 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies a single message catalog file in GNU gettext (filename.po) or Apple strings (filename.strings) format to be used for localization.
58 <dt><b>-d
</b><i>output-directory
</i>
59 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies the output directory for PPD files.
60 The default output directory is
"ppd".
61 <dt><b>-l
</b><i>language(s)
</i>
62 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies one or more languages to use when localizing the PPD file(s).
63 The default language is
"en" (English).
64 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.
66 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies that the output filename should be based on the ModelName value instead of FileName or PCFilenName.
68 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies that PPD files should be tested instead of generated.
70 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies verbose output, basically a running status of which files are being loaded or written.
72 Generates compressed PPD files (filename.ppd.gz).
73 The default is to generate uncompressed PPD files.
75 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em"><dt><b>--crlf
</b>
76 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em"><dt><b>--lf
</b>
77 <dd style=
"margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies the line ending to use - carriage return, carriage return and line feed, or line feed alone.
78 The default is to use the line feed character alone.
80 <h2 class=
"title"><a name=
"SEE_ALSO">See Also
</a></h2>
81 <a href=
"man-ppdhtml.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdhtml
</b>(
1),
</a>
82 <a href=
"man-ppdi.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdi
</b>(
1),
</a>
83 <a href=
"man-ppdmerge.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdmerge
</b>(
1),
</a>
84 <a href=
"man-ppdpo.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdpo
</b>(
1),
</a>
85 <a href=
"man-ppdcfile.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdcfile
</b>(
5),
</a>
86 CUPS Online Help (
<a href=
"http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:
631/help
</a>)
87 <h2 class=
"title"><a name=
"COPYRIGHT">Copyright
</a></h2>
88 Copyright
© 2007-
2016 by Apple Inc.