On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:36, Joe Beach wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:25, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > Try using foomatic-ppdload.
>
> I just tried it and got:
>
> # foomatic-ppdload TKPH5601.PPD Tektronix-560
> Printer Tektronix-560 does not seem to exist in the database!
I think the foomatic-ppdload documentation is wrong. foomatic-ppdload
is a Perl script which early on has the lines:
if (! -f "$libdir/db/source/printer/$printer.xml") {
die "Printer $printer does not seem to exist in the database!\n";
}
meaning that unless $printer.xml already exists it stops. Even
commenting this out, though, doesn't really help, because then
foomatic-ppdload seems to do nothing but append a nearly empty entry to
ppd.xml whose purpose seems to be to just tell foomatic that the printer
exists.
That is, I think you need the .xml file and not the .ppd one.
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Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
