foomatic-ppd-to-xml(1)

1FOOMATIC-PPD-TO-XML(1)      General Commands Manual     FOOMATIC-PPD-TO-XML(1)
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6       foomatic-ppd-to-xml - Generate Foomatic printer XML from a PPD
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9       foomatic-ppd-to-xml OPTIONS [DRIVER:]PPD [[DRIVER:]PPD ...]
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11       foomatic-ppd-to-xml -h
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15       The  first  form  of  the  foomatic-ppd-to-xml command creates Foomatic
16       printer XML corresponding to a given PPD file.
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19       If DRIVER is specified, it is the driver to which the PPD  file  should
20       get assigned. If not supplied, the first driver in the driver list sup‐
21       plied via the -d option is used. Note that the PPD  files  have  to  be
22       supplied to different drivers, so drivers need to be specified if using
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30       -d DRIVERS
31            Comma-separated list of drivers  with  which  the  printer  works.
32            First  driver  is the one for which the PPD file is. If not other‐
33            wise stated by the -r option, this is also the recommended driver.
34            Drivers  already  specified  together  with PPDs do not need to be
35            specified with this option again. The  option  is  not  needed  if
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44            Comma-separated  list  of  known Page Description Languages (PDLs)
45            which the printer supports. This will add all suitable drivers  to
46            the  XML  entry. Currently supported are: Postscript, PCLXL, PCL6,
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50       -l   Add a link to the PPD file to the driver entry in the XML file.
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54            Base directory for a relative link to the PPD. If the base  direc‐
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57            directory  given the PPD can also be given relative to this direc‐
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67            Add the given comment to the comment field of the XML  file.  Com‐
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77            Directory  in  which  to write the resulting XML file. The name of
78            the file will be the printer ID with the ".xml" extension.
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86            XML files for the printers covered by  the  PPD.  This  makes  the
87            process vastly faster if you have PPD files for printers which are
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92       foomatic-ppd-to-xml returns 0 on success, 1 otherwise.
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