foomatic-compiledb - Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database

       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.

       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

Foomatic Project                                   2001-05-07                              FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)

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-ttype   Output file type, either ppd or xml.

       -f        Force: Write into the destination directory even if it already exists.

       -jn      n = number of work processes to run

       driver...
                 only generate data files for these driver(s)

foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

       foomatic-compiledb - Compile the Foomatic printer/driver database

foomatic-ppdfile(1),foomatic-configure(1)

foomatic-compiledb[-ttype][-f][-jn][driver...]