Gee, I have this working. I didn't know it was a big mystery.
AFAIK all I did was 'man papd'. Here is my /etc/papd.conf
Iridium Spooler:\
:pd=/usr/spool/lpd/iridium/aplwsel.ppd:\
:pr=Iridium:
Presumably you can put the ppd anywhere, but you know the printer daemon has access to
it's spool dir, so that seemed a good choice. My permissions:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 2048 Nov 8 12:25 /var/spool/lpd/iridium/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 21723 Sep 5 1998
/var/spool/lpd/iridium/aplwsel.ppd
PPD's can be gotten from the printer manufacturer, but I think I just opened the PPD
that was on a Mac in BBEdit and saved it as a text file. I used the '*PCFileName'
from the PPD as the file name just for consistency -- I don't think it is important.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Harry Zink/Netatalk List
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 7:50 PM
> To: P T Withington; Thierry Michalowski; Guillaume Menguy
> Cc: netatalk mailing list
> Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Accentued letter printing problem
>
>
> on 11/9/1999 11:29 AM, P T Withington at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I believe you can put the .ppd file in the spool directory for
> your printer
> > and netatalk will pass this back to the mac when you do Setup
> in the Chooser.
>
> PLEASE - if someone has figured out how to properly use and install ppd
> files on the linux side of the netatalk equation, so that the Mac can
> properly see the printer's capabilities in the chooser, I'd be
> ecstatic...
>
> Include proper permissions for the files to boot, and you'd be God.
>
> Harry
>
>
