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   piesse to All   
   Re: Importing a PPD printer driver fails   
   19 Nov 10 15:29:04   
   
   Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6   
   From: piesse    
      
   On 19/11/2010 13.45, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:   
   >   
   > I know absolutely nothing about PPD files, but any tool that crashes like   
   > that when it gets such data is broken and should be fixed.   
   > It is symptomatic of poor programming/validation of data.   
   > Telling people to edit a file is not really the solution.   
      
   the PPD importing program is from IBM and was apparently released in 2001.   
   I don't know if the source is available, and I don't believe that    
   anybody at IBM would be willing (or even allowed) to fix it.   
      
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