xerox 3500 ppd error?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

edgardo jawerbaum wrote:
> hi, i have 2 models of printers, xerox phaser 3500 and 4500 and openSUSE
> The 4500 installs OK, but the 3500 is not installing.
> When i check the xrx3500.ppd in your site it says
> xrx3500.ppd: FAIL
>       **FAIL**  Unable to open PPD file - Missing asterisk in column 1 on line 188.
>                 REF: Page 15, section 3.2.
> 
> Any ideas?

Add the missing asterisk?

Wait... it may be not *so* easy.

Probably, someone tried to edit the PPD, and did not follow the syntax
rules required. You'll have to read up the PPD Specification document
available from the Adobe website to make it right.

Maybe commenting out the line does help? The comments for PPDs do start
with '*%' like this:

*% this is a comment line in the PPD

Take care to use the comment sign on each line of a multi-line statement,
if you want to invalidate it. Also, not each line may be easily commented
out without breaking the overall PPD structure.


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