foomatic-compiledb (1)

foomatic-compiledb[-ttype][-f][-jn][driver...]

foomatic-compiledb generates all PPD files or Foomatic combo XML files for all possible printer/driver combos, or only for a selected range of drivers. It generally should not be necessary except for people who want to generate a set of Foomatic data files for distribution. For configuring single printers foomatic-ppdfile(1) and especially foomatic-configure(1) will automagically compute just what they need.

Options

-ttype

Output file type, either ppd or xml.

-f

Force: Write into the destination directory even if it already exists.

-jn

n = number of work processes to run

driver ...

only generate data files for these driver(s)

foomatic-ppdfile(1),foomatic-configure(1)

foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

Manfred Wassmann <[email protected]> and Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.

Existing files are always conserved instead of older files being overwritten. So deleting the destination directory (rm -rf dir) and calling foomatic-compiledb without the -f option is recommended.

Please post bug reports on

http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic