1<!DOCTYPE HTML> 2<html> 3<!-- SECTION: Man Pages --> 4<head> 5 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/cups-printable.css"> 6 <title>ppdi(1)</title> 7</head> 8<body> 9<h1 class="title">ppdi(1)</h1> 10<h2 class="title"><a name="NAME">Name</a></h2> 11ppdi - import ppd files (deprecated) 12<h2 class="title"><a name="SYNOPSIS">Synopsis</a></h2> 13<b>ppdi</b> 14[ 15<b>-I</b> 16<i>include-directory</i> 17] [ 18<b>-o</b> 19<i>source-file</i> 20] 21<i>ppd-file</i> 22[ ... 23<i>ppd-file</i> 24] 25<h2 class="title"><a name="DESCRIPTION">Description</a></h2> 26<b>ppdi</b> imports one or more PPD files into a PPD compiler source file. 27Multiple languages of the same PPD file are merged into a single printer definition to facilitate accurate changes for all localizations. 28<b>This program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.</b> 29<h2 class="title"><a name="OPTIONS">Options</a></h2> 30<b>ppdi</b> supports the following options: 31<dl class="man"> 32<dt><b>-I </b><i>include-directory</i> 33<dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies an alternate include directory. 34Multiple <i>-I</i> options can be supplied to add additional directories. 35<dt><b>-o </b><i>source-file</i> 36<dd style="margin-left: 5.0em">Specifies the PPD source file to update. 37If the source file does not exist, a new source file is created. 38Otherwise the existing file is merged with the new PPD file(s) on the command-line. 39If no source file is specified, the filename <i>ppdi.drv</i> is used. 40</dl> 41<h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> 42<a href="man-ppdc.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdc</b>(1),</a> 43<a href="man-ppdhtml.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdhtml</b>(1),</a> 44<a href="man-ppdmerge.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdmerge</b>(1),</a> 45<a href="man-ppdpo.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdpo</b>(1),</a> 46<a href="man-ppdcfile.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdcfile</b>(5),</a> 47CUPS Online Help (<a href="http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:631/help</a>) 48<h2 class="title"><a name="COPYRIGHT">Copyright</a></h2> 49Copyright © 2007-2014 by Apple Inc. 50 51</body> 52</html> 53