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#  ppdmerge(1) — Linux manual page

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    _ppdmerge_(1)                    Apple Inc.                    _ppdmerge_(1)
    

##  NAME  top

    
    
           ppdmerge - merge ppd files (deprecated)
    

##  SYNOPSIS  top

    
    
           **ppdmerge**[ **-o** _output-ppd-file_ ] _ppd-file ppd-file_ [ ...  _ppd-file_
           ]
    

##  DESCRIPTION  top

    
    
           **ppdmerge** merges two or more PPD files into a single, multi-
           language PPD file.  **This program is deprecated and will be**
           **removed in a future release of CUPS.**
    

##  OPTIONS  top

    
    
           **ppdmerge** supports the following options:
    
           **-o** _output-ppd-file_
                  Specifies the PPD file to create.  If not specified, the
                  merged PPD file is written to the standard output.  If the
                  output file already exists, it is silently overwritten.
    

##  NOTES  top

    
    
           PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a
           future feature release of CUPS.  Printers that do not support IPP
           can be supported using applications such as [ippeveprinter(1)](../man1/ippeveprinter.1.html).
    
           **ppdmerge** does not check whether the merged PPD files are for the
           same device.  Merging of different device PPDs will yield
           unpredictable results.
    

##  SEE ALSO  top

    
    
           [ppdc(1)](../man1/ppdc.1.html), [ppdhtml(1)](../man1/ppdhtml.1.html), [ppdi(1)](../man1/ppdi.1.html), [ppdpo(1)](../man1/ppdpo.1.html), [ppdcfile(5)](../man5/ppdcfile.5.html), CUPS Online
           Help (<http://localhost:631/help>)
    

##  COPYRIGHT  top

    
    
           Copyright Â© 2007-2019 by Apple Inc.
    

##  COLOPHON  top

    
    
           This page is part of the _CUPS_ (a standards-based, open source
           printing system) project.  Information about the project can be
           found at â¨<http://www.cups.org/>â©.  If you have a bug report for
           this manual page, see â¨<http://www.cups.org/>â©.  This page was
           obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
           â¨<https://github.com/apple/cups>â© on 2023-12-22.  (At that time,
           the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
           repository was 2023-10-27.)  If you discover any rendering
           problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
           is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
           corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
           (which is _not_ part of the original manual page), send a mail to
           man-pages@man7.org
    
    26 April 2019                     CUPS                       _ppdmerge_(1)
    

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Pages that refer to this page: [ ppdc(1) ](../man1/ppdc.1.html) , [ ppdhtml(1)
](../man1/ppdhtml.1.html) , [ ppdi(1) ](../man1/ppdi.1.html) , [ ppdpo(1)
](../man1/ppdpo.1.html) , [ ppdcfile(5) ](../man5/ppdcfile.5.html)

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