How to define generic postscript printer when using cups-1.4.2-7

[Ido Levy]

> Ido Levy wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am running CUPS 1.4.2-7 on top of Fedora Core 12.
> >
> > In earlier versions of CUPS I used lpadmin command with the following
> > parameters to define a generic PostScript printer:
> >
> > lpadmin -p PostScript -v ps:/tmp -E -P
> > /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz -D "PostScript" -L "localhost"
> >
> > On this version of CUPS the file /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz
> > doesn't exists. I found on the documentation reference to generic post
> > script driver -
> >
> > lpinfo -m | grep -i generic.ppd
> > drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd Generic PostScript Printer
> >
> > but I am not sure how to use it when defining the printer using lpadmin
> > command
> >
> > I would appreciate your advice
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ido
>
> You need to compile the PPD from the source file:
>
> drv cat drv:///sample.drv/generic.ppd > /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd
>
> See man drv for the details.
>
> Helge
>

Helge

Thank you for the quick response.

Does drv command shipped with CUPS PRM, I can read the man but can't find the command in the system.

Also do you know what is the reason that /usr/share/cups/model/postscript.ppd.gz was omitted from CUPS RPM ?

Thanks,

Ido