FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this page (straight outta the General Commands Manual) is all about foomatic-ppdfile(1) — the main-character command that will generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo. ✨ It's giving useful, it's giving iconic, and it's literally right here.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

foomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d <driver>] -p <printerid>
foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern]
foomatic-ppdfile -h

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The first form of foomatic-ppdfile computes the spooler-independent Foomatic PPD file for any valid printer/driver combo available in the Foomatic database — both for printing with foomatic-rip(1) and for applications/clients being able to access the printer's options. The PPD file is returned on standard ouput. If the driver is not specified, the default driver is used. no cap. 🫶

The second form of the foomatic-ppdfile program will search the printer database and return either all printer entries or those whose name and/or model information match a regular expression. lowkey detective energy. 🔍

The last form prints a help message and exits. short, sweet, slay. 💅

✨ Options ✨

vibe check on the flags, bestie:

• -d drivername — the (optional) driver name to use. If the driver name is not supplied, the default or first driver in the printers compatible driver list is used.
• -p printer id — the printer id.
• -w — return a PPD file that conforms to the Microsoft Windows format limitations.
• -A — return all printer entries in the database.
• -Ppattern — return all printer entries in the database which match the regular expression.

bestie note: up in the synopsis it's written [-P pattern] with a space, but the actual option label is exactly -Ppattern — copy it exactly, no cap. 💅

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• foomatic-rip(1) — the sibling command, go read it too. 🫶

💥 EXIT STATUS 💥

foomatic-ppdfile returns 0 on success, 1 otherwise. That's it. Short and iconic.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.

Modified and updated by Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>.

💀 BUGS 💀

None so far.

Please post bug reports on

http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic

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Signed, sealed, delivered by Foomatic Project on 2001-05-07 — page name FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1). periodt. 🫶