On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 21:51:09 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:18:22PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > > What is the result of > > > > file <your_supposed_ppd_file> ? > > UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text This is the norm here: brian@desktop:/usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf$ file CUPS-PDF.ppd CUPS-PDF.ppd: PPD file, version "4.3" The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"