Section 1 · User commands
foomatic-compiledb.1
Package: foomatic
FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
EXIT STATUS
AUTHORS
BUGS
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