ppdpo(1)

✨ ppdpo — the ppd message catalog generator ✨

okay bestie, listen up 💖 this one's ppdpo, part of the OpenPrinting / CUPS crew, and she is deprecated — like, wearing a vintage slip dress to the party deprecated. she still eats, but her era is ending, and we're gonna talk about it.

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🦋 NAME 🦋

ppdpo — ppd message catalog generator (deprecated) 😭

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ppdpo [ -D name[=value] ] [ -I include-directory ] [ -o output-file ]
source-file

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: ppdpo goes into your PPDC source files and extracts the UI strings out of them — all the little bits of text that a human being would eventually read on screen — and then it updates a message catalog source file so those strings can get translated. 🌈

and it can do that in one of two formats, no cap:

• GNU gettext format message catalog source files
• macOS strings format message catalog source files

🚨 deprecated alert 🚨 this program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS. she's on her way out, bestie. use her while she's here, but don't build your whole personality around her.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

ppdpo supports the following options:

• -D name[=value] — sets the named variable so it can be used inside the source file. this is literally the same energy as using the #define directive in the source file itself. 💫
• -I include-directory — points at an alternate include directory. and here's the cute part: you can stack multiple -I options to add more and more directories. the more the merrier, fr fr. 🎀
• -o output-file — names the output file. and the extension you pick actually matters, so pay attention bestie 👑:
  • .po or .po.gz → GNU gettext format message catalogs
  • .strings → macOS strings files

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🌸 NOTES 🌸

PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS. 💀

so like. that's a whole thing. if you've got printers that don't support IPP, you can still support them — just using applications such as ippeveprinter(1). she's the main character now. 💜

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• ppdc(1)
• ppdhtml(1)
• ppdi(1)
• ppdmerge(1)
• ppdcfile(5)
• CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright © 2020-2024 by OpenPrinting.

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okay and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 this was CUPS, dated 2021-02-28 — so yeah, mind the vintage. now go forth and generate those catalogs before she gets removed from the group chat 🙈🦋✨