ppdi not merging common content from multiple PPDs?
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Tue Mar 3 20:50:20 PST 2009
On Mar 3, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Smith Kennedy wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Smith Kennedy wrote:
>>> ...
>>> If this is expected behavior (I seem to recall finding in my
>>> thrashing that it is),
>>
>> It is currently the expected behavior; optimizing the output is on
>> our TODO list but hasn't yet happened.
>
> My mistake - I thought it used to do this some time ago, but I must
> have been mistaken. Will this be in the DDK included with CUPS 1.4?
Probably not in 1.4.0, but likely for a later 1.4.x update.
>>> ...
>>> I thought the problem might be that the files were not
>>> "normalized", so tried importing one using ppdi and then re-
>>> generating it using ppdc, and did the same thing for the second
>>> one. Interestingly, ppdi refused to import the ppds generated by
>>> ppdc.
>>
>> What errors did you see?
>
> There were no errors written out to stdout or stderr. Here is an
> example run I did just now:
> ...
> Notice that there were no error messages written out by ppdi when
> importing hp1300_6.ppd. But the "new.drv" file doesn't have the
> LaserJet 1300 in it. I checked system.log and the console log in
> Console.app on Mac OS X and didn't see anything.
Can you re-test with the current CUPS 1.4 release or Subversion sources?
I'll see about adding a unit test for this to the standard build.
> ...
> Hand-editing is tricky, which is why I was hoping to use the
> tool. :-)
>
> Perhaps a 1-level pass would be possible as a first-phase
> enhancement that could make it into 1.4, with multi-level
> implemented later?
That's the most likely path, although like I said it might not show up
until 1.4.x
(x > 0)
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
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