[cups.general] CUPS with Windows PPD files?

[Michael R Sweet]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On 2008 Aug 12, at 18:40, Michael R Sweet wrote:
> 
>> It isn't a matter of CUPS working with vendor Windows PPDs, it is a
>> matter of the vendors shipping PPD files that conform to the spec.
> 
> 
> Given the sheer number of non-pedantically-conforming vendor PPDs,  
> this is more or less equivalent to not supporting vendor PPDs.  Which  
> leaves me with the question of how one is supposed to use these  
> printers with CUPS, given that foomatic doesn't provide PPDs for them.

CUPS isn't being pendantic, the failures occur because the PPD files
contain serious errors that have caused problems for us in the past.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer