man/ppdi.man

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   9 .TH ppdi 1 "CUPS" "12 June 2014" "Apple Inc."
  10 .SH NAME
  11 ppdi \- import ppd files (deprecated)
  12 .SH SYNOPSIS
  13 .B ppdi
  14 [
  15 .B \-I
  16 .I include-directory
  17 ] [
  18 .B \-o
  19 .I source-file
  20 ]
  21 .I ppd-file
  22 [ ...
  23 .I ppd-file
  24 ]
  25 .SH DESCRIPTION
  26 \fBppdi\fR imports one or more PPD files into a PPD compiler source file.
  27 Multiple languages of the same PPD file are merged into a single printer definition to facilitate accurate changes for all localizations.
  28 \fBThis program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.\fR
  29 .SH OPTIONS
  30 \fBppdi\fR supports the following options:
  31 .TP 5
  32 \fB\-I \fIinclude-directory\fR
  33 Specifies an alternate include directory.
  34 Multiple \fI-I\fR options can be supplied to add additional directories.
  35 .TP 5
  36 \fB\-o \fIsource-file\fR
  37 Specifies the PPD source file to update.
  38 If the source file does not exist, a new source file is created.
  39 Otherwise the existing file is merged with the new PPD file(s) on the command-line.
  40 If no source file is specified, the filename \fIppdi.drv\fR is used.
  41 .SH SEE ALSO
  42 .BR ppdc (1),
  43 .BR ppdhtml (1),
  44 .BR ppdmerge (1),
  45 .BR ppdpo (1),
  46 .BR ppdcfile (5),
  47 CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)
  48 .SH COPYRIGHT
  49 Copyright \[co] 2007-2018 by Apple Inc.