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XPS is Microsoft's attempt to replace PDF, the only difference is that everyone can read PDFs, and not everyone can read XPS. I understand that KDE 4 versions of Okular will support XPS, which may make these instructions unnecessary, although having a tool for conversion readily at hand is always useful!
These instructions were tested in Debian Lenny. These instructions worked for our specific systems YMMV.
$ sudo apt-get install libxext-dev libxt-dev $ wget http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/ghostpdl/ghostpdl-8.71.tar.bz2 $ tar xvvjf ghostpdl-8.71.tar.bz2 $ cd ghostpdl-8.71 $ make xps
After the build you will find gxps in xps/obj
To test, you will need a test document in XPS format.
$ cd xps/obj $ ./gxps -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf -dNOPAUSE test.xps
You probably want to move the gxps executable into a convenient location within your PATH. /usr/local/bin may be a good destination. Once there you ought to be able to run the command from anywhere and it just work. Not sure what your PATH is? Type "echo $PATH" in your terminal.
$ echo $PATH $ sudo cp xps/obj/gxps /usr/local/bin/ $ sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/gxps
XPS probably does not exist on your Linux system as a file type, you can either create yourself using KDE Control Centre, or in KDE:
Single user: ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/xps.desktop All users: /usr/share/mimelnk/application/xps.desktop [Desktop Entry] Comment=XPS Document Hidden=false Icon=application-xps MimeType=application/xps Patterns=*.xps;*.XPS Type=MimeType X-KDE-AutoEmbed=false
If you are using Konqueror, you can add a service menu (to enable right-click / action menu).
Single user: ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/xpstopdf.desktop All users: /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/xpstopdf.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=xpstopdf service menu ServiceTypes=application/xps Icon=acroread Actions=xpstopdf [Desktop Action xpstopdf] Icon=acroread Name=Convert XPS to PDF Exec=cd "%d"; gxps -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="`echo "%f" | cut -d . -f 1`.pdf" -dNOPAUSE "%f"; mv "%f" ~/.local/share/Trash/files; kdialog --title "Convert XPS to PDF" --passivepopup "Done" 3; echo;
You should now be able to right-click on the file and "Convert XPS to PDF". This will create a PDF of the same name and move the XPS into trash.
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