pyppd A CUPS PostScript Printer Driver's compressor and generator
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CUPS PostScript PPD generator PostScript driver PPD

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A CUPS PostScript Printer Driver's compressor and generator pyppd is a CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) PPD generator. It holds an compressed archive of PPDs, which can be listed and retrieved only when needed by CUPS, saving disk space.InstalationTo install pyppd, you can use: pip install pyppdOr download the source package, uncompress, and run as root: python setup.py installIt depends on Python 2.x (http://www.python.org) and XZ Utils (http://tukaani.org/xz/).UsageAt first, you have to create a PPD archive. For such, put all PPDs you want to add in the archive inside a single folder (which can have subfolders), then run: pyppd /path/to/your/ppd/folderIt'll create pyppd-ppdfile in your current folder. You can test it by running: ./pyppd-ppdfile listAnd, for reading a PPD from the archive, simply do: ./pyppd-ppdfile cat pyppd-ppdfile:MY-PPD-FILE.PPDFor CUPS to be able to use your newly-created archive, copy pyppd-ppdfile to /usr/lib/cups/driver/ and you're done. Requirements: · Python

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