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

[Ido Levy]

> Ido Levy wrote:
>
> >> 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
>
> I just learned (see the response by Michael Sweet in this thread) that you
> only need to supply the drv:... URI in your lpadmin command. cupsd then
> generates the PPD from the respecive source file.
>
> Helge
>

Thanks