Man page - foomatic-compiledb(1)

Packages contains this manual

Package:  foomatic-db-engine
apt-get install foomatic-db-engine

Manuals in package:
• foomatic-configure(1)
• foomatic-kitload(8)
• foomatic-getpjloptions(8)
• foomatic-preferred-driver(8)
• foomatic-addpjloptions(8)
• foomatic-ppdfile(1)
• foomatic-datafile(1)
• foomatic-printjob(1)
• foomatic-perl-data(1)
• foomatic-ppd-options(1)
• foomatic-compiledb(1)
• foomatic-combo-xml(1)
Documentations in package:
• foomatic-db-engine

Manual

FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Options
SEE ALSO
EXIT STATUS
AUTHORS
BUGS

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NAME

foomatic-compiledb - Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database

SYNOPSIS

foomatic-compiledb [ -t type ] [ -f ] [ -j n ] [ driver ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

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

	-t type		Output file type, either ppd or xml.
	-f		Force: Write into the destination directory even if it already exists.
	-j n		n = number of work processes to run

driver ...

only generate data files for these driver(s)

SEE ALSO

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

EXIT STATUS

foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

AUTHORS

Manfred Wassmann < manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de > and Till Kamppeter < till.kamppeter@gmail.com > for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary.

BUGS

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

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