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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Adobe PPD files
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Date: 6 Dec 89 23:00:14 GMT
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In article <1036@maxim.erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>
>I believe that printer-specific information such as this is supposed to be
>retrieved from a PPD file.
>
>But since each printer on the system/network, even if they are of the same
>type, would need its own PPD file, I am tempting to use the Adobe-supplied
>PPD files (they can be retrieved from the archive-server@adobe.com) as
>templates and then copy the appropriate PPD file to a new file with the
>same name as the printer (ie, ps00, ps01 etc at our site) and use those.
>I believe that I would then be able to freely change the exitserver password
>in those files without breaking any conformance rules.
>
>Right or wrong?
>
Well, the Adobe documentation (section 4.2) describes the *Password entry
as "the default exitserver password", but it might not be incorrect to use
it in the way you suggest. Section 2.9 suggests that you should build
your per-printer PPD files with *Include entries for the standard one.
Of course, you have to decide on the question that Adobe has explicitly 
left undefined: whether the first-encountered or the last-encountered    
*Password entry is the effective one!

Chris Thompson
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