[cups-devel] Query regarding deprecated cups API cupsGetPPD

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Sun Jun 3 19:09:39 PDT 2018


The CUPS "destination" API is the replacement (and has been for 10 years) - you'll find it documented in the CUPS Programming Manual at:

    https://www.cups.org/documentation.html


> On May 22, 2018, at 6:11 AM, Balwant Bora <bora.balwant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am migrating my application from Xcode7 to Xcode9. and Xcode9 comes with
> cups lib version 2.12.0.
> I am using *cupsGetPPD* API in my application. but it got deprecated in
> latest cups library.
> Could you please guid me the alternate API for cupsGetPPD ?
> 
> Intention to use cupsGetPPD API, I want to get the PPD path, so that i can
> read the PPD for each printer queue . We have defined custom tags in PPD
> and I want to read those custom tags
> and use in my Application.
> 
> It is my first post.I don't know the format of sending query. so Sorry for
> that.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Balwant Bora
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer



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