Converting XPS to PDF on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

On Ubuntu Okular can read XPS, but I didn’t want to install all of the KDE libs to run it. I’d rather convert to the more universal PDF format, anyway. Searching around I found reference to the GhostPDL project and its gxps program.

After a little work I was able to build this on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit:

Unpack the source
Install the libxt-dev package for the X11 headers.
In the root of the source, run make xps

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2 Responses to Converting XPS to PDF on Ubuntu 9.10

shaligram | July 29, 2010 at 5:24 am | Reply

In the root of the source, run make xps

Please explain this step in detail. Newbie to Linux ubuntu.
Rich | July 31, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Reply

To unpack, run this command:
“tar -xvjf ghostpdl-8.71.tar.bz2″

Move inside the source:
“cd ghostpdl-8.71″

Build the xps program:
“make xps”