1<!DOCTYPE HTML> 2<html> 3<!-- SECTION: Man Pages --> 4<head> 5 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/cups-printable.css"> 6 <title>ppdmerge(1)</title> 7</head> 8<body> 9<h1 class="title">ppdmerge(1)</h1> 10<h2 class="title"><a name="NAME">Name</a></h2> 11ppdmerge - merge ppd files (deprecated) 12<h2 class="title"><a name="SYNOPSIS">Synopsis</a></h2> 13<b>ppdmerge</b> 14[ 15<b>-o</b> 16<i>output-ppd-file</i> 17] 18<i>ppd-file</i> 19<i>ppd-file</i> 20[ ... 21<i>ppd-file</i> 22] 23<h2 class="title"><a name="DESCRIPTION">Description</a></h2> 24<b>ppdmerge</b> merges two or more PPD files into a single, multi-language 25PPD file. 26<b>This program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.</b> 27<h2 class="title"><a name="OPTIONS">Options</a></h2> 28<b>ppdmerge</b> supports the following options: 29<dl class="man"> 30<dt><b>-o </b><i>output-ppd-file</i> 31<dd style="margin-left: 3.0em">Specifies the PPD file to create. 32If not specified, the merged PPD file is written to the standard output. 33If the output file already exists, it is silently overwritten. 34</dl> 35<h2 class="title"><a name="NOTES">Notes</a></h2> 36<b>ppdmerge</b> does not check whether the merged PPD files are for the same device. 37Merging of different device PPDs will yield unpredictable results. 38<h2 class="title"><a name="SEE_ALSO">See Also</a></h2> 39<a href="man-ppdc.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdc</b>(1),</a> 40<a href="man-ppdhtml.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdhtml</b>(1),</a> 41<a href="man-ppdi.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdi</b>(1),</a> 42<a href="man-ppdpo.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdpo</b>(1),</a> 43<a href="man-ppdcfile.html?TOPIC=Man+Pages"><b>ppdcfile</b>(5),</a> 44CUPS Online Help (<a href="http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:631/help</a>) 45<h2 class="title"><a name="COPYRIGHT">Copyright</a></h2> 46Copyright © 2007-2014 by Apple Inc. 47 48</body> 49</html> 50