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- Subject: foomatic: please document PPD format
- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 22:55:47 -0500
- Message-id: <20110504035546.GA8875@elie>
Package: foomatic-db-engine Version: 4.0.7-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, I was looking to track down a bug experienced using the driver [1], from the point of view of ghostscript. In that PPD, I see: | *FoomaticIDs: Samsung-ML-1020 gdi | *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPA&& | USE -sDEVICE=gdi%A%Z -sOutputFile=-%C -f - | perl -p -e '%E'&& | " So I wondered: what is the command line actually used? In particular, I wanted to know what would be substitued for %A and %Z. | $ man ppd | No manual entry for ppd | $ man -s 5 -k foomatic | $ What I am dreaming of is a short foomatic-ppd(5) page explaining that the format is based on Adobe's PPD format and listing extensions. That way, the documentation could fill out over time, and it would be easier for people to see where to look to learn the basics in the meantime. The package this is filed against is a wild guess; please feel free to reassign if I got it wrong. What do you think? Would that make sense? Any idea where one can get that information today, in order to start? Regards, Jonathan [1] http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=gdi&printer=Samsung-ML-1020&show=1
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- Subject: Re: foomatic: please document PPD format
- From: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 18:54:40 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2301141843540.28695@postfach.intern.alteholz.me>
Hi Jonathan,from my point of view it makes no sense to create a manpage for the PPD format. The PPD format will evolve in course of time and the manpage will be outdated soon.Unfortunately Adobe often changes it website and links to the latest version of the spec are outdated as well (even the wikipedia links only show a 404). So I am afraid there will be no easy solution for this problem. At least Debian can not solve it, sorry.Best regards, Thorsten
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