<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <!-- SECTION: Man Pages --> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../cups-printable.css"> <title>ppdi(1)</title> </head> <body> <h1 class="title">ppdi(1)</h1> <h2 class="title"><a name="NAME">Name</a></h2> ppdi - import ppd files (deprecated) <h2 class="title"><a name="SYNOPSIS">Synopsis</a></h2> <b>ppdi</b> [ <b>-I</b> <i>include-directory</i> ] [ <b>-o</b> <i>source-file</i> ] <i>ppd-file</i> [ ... <i>ppd-file</i> ] <h2 class="title"><a name="DESCRIPTION">Description</a></h2> <b>ppdi</b> imports one or more PPD files into a PPD compiler source file. Multiple languages of the same PPD file are merged into a single printer definition to facilitate accurate changes for all localizations. <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>ppdi</b> supports the following options: <dl class="man"> <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>-o </b><i>source-file</i> <dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies the PPD source file to update. If the source file does not exist, a new source file is created. Otherwise the existing file is merged with the new PPD file(s) on the command-line. If no source file is specified, the filename <i>ppdi.drv</i> is used. </dl> <h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> <a href="man-ppdc.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdc</b>(1),</a> <a href="man-ppdhtml.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdhtml</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>