FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)					  FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)



NAME
       foomatic-ppdfile	 -  Generate  a	 PPD  file for a given printer/driver
       combo

SYNOPSIS
       foomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d ] -p 
       foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern]
       foomatic-ppdfile -h


DESCRIPTION
       The first form of the foomatic-ppdfile to compute the spooler-indepen-
       dent 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  speci-
       fied, the default driver is used.


       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.

       The last form prints a help message and exits.


   Options
       -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	regu-
	    lar expression.




       SEE ALSO
	      foomatic-rip(1)


EXIT STATUS
       foomatic-ppdfile returns 0 on success, 1 otherwise.


AUTHOR
       Manfred	 Wassmann    for	the  foomatic
       project using output from the associated binary.

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


BUGS
       None so far.

       Please send bug reports to foomatic-devel@linuxprinting.org.



Foomatic Project		  2001-05-07		  FOOMATIC-PPDFILE(1)

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