<!DOCTYPE HTML> <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 (deprecated) <h2 class="title"><a name="SYNOPSIS">Synopsis</a></h2> <b>ppdc</b> [ <b>-D </b><i>name</i>[<b>=</b><i>value</i>] ] [ <b>-I</b> <i>include-directory</i> ] [ <b>-c</b> <i>message-catalog</i> ] [ <b>-d</b> <i>output-directory</i> ] [ <b>-l</b> <i>language(s)</i> ] [ <b>-m</b> ] [ <b>-t</b> ] [ <b>-v</b> ] [ <b>-z</b> ] [ <b>--cr</b> ] [ <b>--crlf</b> ] [ <b>--lf</b> ] <i>source-file</i> <h2 class="title"><a name="DESCRIPTION">Description</a></h2> <b>ppdc</b> 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> <h2 class="title"><a name="OPTIONS">Options</a></h2> <b>ppdc</b> supports the following options: <dl class="man"> <dt><b>-D </b><i>name</i>[<b>=</b><i>value</i>] <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Sets the named variable for use in the source file. It is equivalent to using the <i>#define</i> directive in the source file. <dt><b>-I </b><i>include-directory</i> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies an alternate include directory. Multiple <i>-I</i> options can be supplied to add additional directories. <dt><b>-c </b><i>message-catalog</i> <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. <dt><b>-d </b><i>output-directory</i> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies the output directory for PPD files. The default output directory is "ppd". <dt><b>-l </b><i>language(s)</i> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">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. <dt><b>-m</b> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies that the output filename should be based on the ModelName value instead of FileName or PCFilenName. <dt><b>-t</b> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies that PPD files should be tested instead of generated. <dt><b>-v</b> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies verbose output, basically a running status of which files are being loaded or written. <b>-z</b> Generates compressed PPD files (filename.ppd.gz). The default is to generate uncompressed PPD files. <dt><b>--cr</b> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em"><dt><b>--crlf</b> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em"><dt><b>--lf</b> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies the line ending to use - carriage return, carriage return and line feed, or line feed alone. The default is to use the line feed character alone. </dl> <h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> <a href="man-ppdhtml.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdhtml</b>(1),</a> <a href="man-ppdi.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdi</b>(1),</a> <a href="man-ppdmerge.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdmerge</b>(1),</a> <a href="man-ppdpo.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdpo</b>(1),</a> <a href="man-ppdcfile.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdcfile</b>(5),</a> CUPS Online Help (<a href="http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:631/help</a>) <h2 class="title"><a name="COPYRIGHT">Copyright</a></h2> Copyright © 2007-2014 by Apple Inc. </body> </html>