man/ppdmerge.man

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  13 .TH ppdmerge 1 "CUPS" "12 June 2014" "Apple Inc."
  14 .SH NAME
  15 ppdmerge \- merge ppd files (deprecated)
  16 .SH SYNOPSIS
  17 .B ppdmerge
  18 [
  19 .B \-o
  20 .I output-ppd-file
  21 ]
  22 .I ppd-file
  23 .I ppd-file
  24 [ ...
  25 .I ppd-file
  26 ]
  27 .SH DESCRIPTION
  28 \fBppdmerge\fR merges two or more PPD files into a single, multi-language
  29 PPD file.
  30 \fBThis program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.\fR
  31 .SH OPTIONS
  32 \fBppdmerge\fR supports the following options:
  33 .TP
  34 \fB\-o \fIoutput-ppd-file\fR
  35 Specifies the PPD file to create.
  36 If not specified, the merged PPD file is written to the standard output.
  37 If the output file already exists, it is silently overwritten.
  38 .SH NOTES
  39 \fBppdmerge\fR does not check whether the merged PPD files are for the same device.
  40 Merging of different device PPDs will yield unpredictable results.
  41 .SH SEE ALSO
  42 .BR ppdc (1),
  43 .BR ppdhtml (1),
  44 .BR ppdi (1),
  45 .BR ppdpo (1),
  46 .BR ppdcfile (5),
  47 CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)
  48 .SH COPYRIGHT
  49 Copyright \[co] 2007-2017 by Apple Inc.