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A CUPS PostScript Printer Driver's compressor and generator

Project description

pyppd is a CUPS PPD generator. It holds an compressed archive of PPDs, which can be listed and retrieved only when needed by CUPS, saving disk space.

Instalation

To install pyppd, you can use:

pip install pyppd

Or download the source package, uncompress, and run as root:

python setup.py install

It depends on Python 2.x (http://www.python.org) and XZ Utils (http://tukaani.org/xz/).

Usage

At 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/folder

It’ll create pyppd-ppdfile in your current folder. You can test it by running:

./pyppd-ppdfile list

And, for reading a PPD from the archive, simply do:

./pyppd-ppdfile cat pyppd-ppdfile:MY-PPD-FILE.PPD

For CUPS to be able to use your newly-created archive, copy pyppd-ppdfile to /usr/lib/cups/driver/ and you’re done.

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