<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- SECTION: Man Pages --> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cups-printable.css"> <title>ppdc(1)</title> </head> <body> <h1 class="title">ppdc(1)</h1> <h2 class="title"><a name="NAME">Name</a></h2> ppdc - cups ppd compiler <h2 class="title"><a name="SYNOPSIS">Synopsis</a></h2> <b>ppdc </b>[ -D <i>name[=value] </i>] [ -I <i>include-directory </i>] [ -c <i>message-catalog </i>] [ -d <i>output-directory </i>] [ -l <i>language(s) </i>] [-m] [-t] [ -v ] [ -z ] [ --cr ] [ --crlf ] [ --lf ] <i>source-file </i><h2 class="title"><a name="DESCRIPTION">Description</a></h2> <i>ppdc</i> compiles PPDC source files into one or more PPD files. <b>This program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.</b> <p>The <i>-D</i> option sets the named variable for use in the source file. It is equivalent to using the #define directive in the source file. <p>The <i>-I</i> option specifies an alternate include directory; multiple <i>-I</i> options can be supplied to add additional directories. <p>The <i>-c</i> option specifies a single message catalog file in GNU gettext source format (filename.po) to be used for localization. <p>The <i>-d</i> option specifies the output directory for PPD files. The default output directory is "ppd". <p>The <i>-l</i> option specifies one or more languages to use when localizing the PPD file(s). The default language is "en" (English). Separate 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. <p>The <i>-m</i> option specifies that the output filename should be based on the ModelName value instead of FileName or PCFilenName. <p>The <i>-t</i> option specifies that PPD files should be tested instead of generated. <p>The <i>-v</i> option provides more verbose output, basically a running status of which files are being loaded or written. <p>The <i>-z</i> option generates compressed PPD files (filename.ppd.gz). The default is to generate uncompressed PPD files. <p>The <i>--cr</i>, <i>--crlf</i>, and <i>--lf</i> options specify the line ending to use - carriage return, carriage return and line feed, or line feed. The default is to use the line feed character alone. <h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> ppdhtml(1), ppdi(1), ppdmerge(1), ppdpo(1), ppdcfile(5) <br> <a href='http://localhost:631/help'>http://localhost:631/help</a> <h2 class="title"><a name="COPYRIGHT">Copyright</a></h2> Copyright 2007-2013 by Apple Inc. </body> </html>