[cups.general] CUPS with Windows PPD files?

[Helge Blischke]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> We currently use CUPS 1.2.7 with vendor-provided PPD files.  When we  
> tried to update to 1.3.5, we discovered that its PPD parser rejected  
> almost all the vendor PPDs as malformed in one way or another.   
> linuxprinting.org says to use the vendor PPD, and in many cases (e.g.  
> Dell W5300N) doesn't have a foomatic database entry.
> 
> Does any current version of CUPS work with vendor Windows PPDs?  Is  
> there another way to get these to work?
> 

Perhaps you could post some examples. As for my experience,
the causes for cupstestppd repelling PPDs usually can be
fixed without great pain; I think I could give you some
hints.

Helge


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