1<!DOCTYPE HTML> 2<html> 3<!-- SECTION: Man Pages --> 4<head> 5 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cups-printable.css"> 6 <title>ppdc(1)</title> 7</head> 8<body> 9<h1 class="title">ppdc(1)</h1> 10<h2 class="title"><a name="NAME">Name</a></h2> 11ppdc - cups ppd compiler (deprecated) 12<h2 class="title"><a name="SYNOPSIS">Synopsis</a></h2> 13<b>ppdc</b> 14[ 15<b>-D </b><i>name</i>[<b>=</b><i>value</i>] 16] [ 17<b>-I</b> 18<i>include-directory</i> 19] [ 20<b>-c</b> 21<i>message-catalog</i> 22] [ 23<b>-d</b> 24<i>output-directory</i> 25] [ 26<b>-l</b> 27<i>language(s)</i> 28] [ 29<b>-m</b> 30] [ 31<b>-t</b> 32] [ 33<b>-v</b> 34] [ 35<b>-z</b> 36] [ 37<b>--cr</b> 38] [ 39<b>--crlf</b> 40] [ 41<b>--lf</b> 42] 43<i>source-file</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: 49<dl class="man"> 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. 52It 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. 55Multiple <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. 60The 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). 63The default language is "en" (English). 64Separate 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. 65<dt><b>-m</b> 66<dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies that the output filename should be based on the ModelName value instead of FileName or PCFilenName. 67<dt><b>-t</b> 68<dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies that PPD files should be tested instead of generated. 69<dt><b>-v</b> 70<dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies verbose output, basically a running status of which files are being loaded or written. 71<b>-z</b> 72Generates compressed PPD files (filename.ppd.gz). 73The default is to generate uncompressed PPD files. 74<dt><b>--cr</b> 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. 78The default is to use the line feed character alone. 79</dl> 80<h2 class="title"><a name="NOTES">Notes</a></h2> 81PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS. 82Printers that do not support IPP can be supported using applications such as 83<b>ippeveprinter</b>(1). 84<h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> 85<b>ppdhtml</b>(1), 86<b>ppdi</b>(1), 87<b>ppdmerge</b>(1), 88<b>ppdpo</b>(1), 89<b>ppdcfile</b>(5), 90CUPS Online Help (<a href="http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:631/help</a>) 91<h2 class="title"><a name="COPYRIGHT">Copyright</a></h2> 92Copyright © 2007-2019 by Apple Inc. 93 94</body> 95</html> 96