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.TH FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB 1 "2001-05-07" "Foomatic Project"
.SH NAME
foomatic-compiledb \- Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI foomatic-compiledb \ \fB[ \ \-t \ \fItype\fB \ \fB] \ \fB[ \ \fB\-f \ \fB]\ \fB[ \ \fB\-j \ \fIn\fB \ \fB] \ \fB[\ \ \fIdriver\fB \ \fB...\ \ \fB]\fR

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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 \fBfoomatic-ppdfile(1)\fR and especially
\fBfoomatic-configure(1)\fR will automagically compute just what they
need.

.SS Options
.TP 10
.BI \-t \ type
Output file type, either ppd or xml.

.TP 10
.BI \-f
Force: Write into the destination directory even if it already exists.

.TP 10
.BI \-j \ n
n = number of work processes to run

.TP 10
.I driver ...  
only generate data files for these driver(s)


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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	print/cups/filter/foomatic-db-engine
=
Stability	Volatile
.TE 
.PP
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR foomatic-ppdfile (1), foomatic-configure (1)

.SH EXIT STATUS
.B foomatic-compiledb
returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

.SH AUTHORS
Manfred Wassmann <\fImanolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de\fR> and Till Kamppeter
<\fItill.kamppeter@gmx.net\fR> for the foomatic
project using output from the associated binary.

.SH 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



.SH NOTES

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This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  /foomatic-db-engine-3.0-20080903.tar.gz

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/foomatic/.