diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 14296aa1eb1..7e02f2fe5d9 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1804,6 +1804,7 @@ libmsgpack.so.4 msgpack-1.1.0_1
 libmsgpackc.so.2 msgpack-1.1.0_1
 libewf.so.3 libewf-20171104_1
 libcupsfilters.so.2 libcupsfilters-2.0.0_1
+libppd.so.2 libppd-2.0.0_1
 libfontembed.so.1 libcups-filters-1.17.5_1
 libjemalloc.so.2 jemalloc-4.0.0_1
 liblucene++.so.0 Lucene++-3.0.6_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libppd-devel b/srcpkgs/libppd-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..9eccb5c7de6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libppd-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libppd
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libppd/template b/srcpkgs/libppd/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f650a84dc5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libppd/template
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Template file for 'libppd'
+pkgname=libppd
+version=2.0.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config ghostscript poppler mupdf-tools"
+makedepends="cups-devel libcupsfilters-devel"
+short_desc="OpenPrinting legacy support library for PPD files"
+maintainer="Andrew J. Hesford <ajh@sideband.org>"
+license="Apache-2.0 WITH custom:GPL2-LGPL2-Exception"
+homepage="https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd"
+changelog="https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/blob/master/CHANGES.md"
+distfiles="https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/releases/download/${version}/libppd-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=882d3c659a336e91559de8f3c76fc26197fe6e5539d9b484a596e29a5a4e0bc8
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING
+}
+
+libppd-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision} cups-devel"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+	}
+}