The openprinting-ppds package does include PPD files in a compressed
form. PPDs can easily be generated from /usr/lib/cups/driver
/openprinting-ppds script (just run it from a command line, done
automatically by cups) and requires no external http downloading so
offline use is no problem at all. See this changelog:
foomatic-db (20100806-0ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low
* debian/local/pyppd/, debian/rules, debian/control: Compressed all physical
PPD files of the openprinting-ppds and openprinting-ppds-extra packages
into archive files reducing the disk space occupation by a factor of 10,
freeing several tens of megabytes on the Ubuntu Desktop CDs (or on any live
CD based on Debian or a derivative distribution). The archives are self-
extracting and located in /usr/lib/cups/driver/, so that CUPS automatically
extracts the PPD files. Thank you very much to Vitor Baptista who developed
this great PPD compressor in the Google Summer of Code 2010.
-- Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:31:03
+0200
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