foomatic-ppd-options(1)

foomatic-ppd-options1

Show the ppd options

Usage

foomatic-ppd-options [-d=debuglevel] [ppdfiles]

Overview

The foomatic-ppd-options program reads the specified PPD files or stdin and decodes the PPD file to produce a list of options. This is really just a text based version of other print configuration tools.

The output format consists of a set of lines, each starting with a keyword, followed by a set of options and the default value. For example:

makemodel = Tektronix Phaser 350 Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)
name=PageSize; default=Letter; options=Letter (US Letter), \
    A4 (A4), 11x17 (11x17), A3 (A3), A5 (A5), B5 (B5 \(JIS\)),...
name=PageRegion; default=Letter; options=Letter (US Letter), A4 (A4), ...

Each option starts with the name tag, followed by a default value (if any), followed by the set of options and a comment describing them. Punctuation in the comment is escaped.

Options

-ddebuglevel

Set the debug level. 0 disables debug messages.

[ files ]

The list of PPD files to read for options. A '-' causes STDIN to be read.

Exit status

foomatic-ppd-options exits with a 0 status if successful, and nonzero if an error. An error message is also printed on standard error (STDERR).

Releases

Unchanged in 12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–Arch

Author

Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>

Bugs

Probably. But it has been tested.

From foomatic-db-engine 5:20200131-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.