Re: .xps files on SL5
You are correct -- the application built and seems to run using the files contained in the zip file when unzipped (using linux unzip) into the same directory from which one is building mupdf. I have not yet tested it with xps files but with PDF files. Should the built/made application be packaged as an installable RPM (and source RPM using the sources supplied) for convenience of other users? Yasha Karant On 09/17/2011 10:32 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:54:25 -0700, Yasha Karantykar...@csusb.edu wrote: I tried the binary executables of mudpf for linux on 5.7, but the glibc is not compatible. Yes, I found that too. I then tried to make from source: [ykarant@localhost mupdf-0.9] make MKDIR build/debug (snip) CC build/debug/dev_text.o fitz/dev_text.c:8:10: error: #include expects FILENAME orFILENAME fitz/dev_text.c: In function ‘fz_text_extract_span’: fitz/dev_text.c:324: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘FT_Get_Advance’ make: *** [build/debug/dev_text.o] Error 1 Also, no go. What did you do differently? You don't mention getting the third party libraries at http://www.mupdf.com/download/mupdf-thirdparty.zip as instructed in the README. I did and unzipped them in the mupdf-0.9 directory. Apart from that, I just did make the way you did. Stephen Isard
Re: .xps files on SL5
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. mupdf http://mupdf.com/ works on SL6 but I haven't tried building it on SL5. Before I found that, I found that the .xps documents I was interested in were in fact .zip files containing PNG and JPG files with the images that I wanted - the XML was just adding titles etc. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
Re: .xps files on SL5
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:08:21 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? ... mupdf http://mupdf.com/ works on SL6 but I haven't tried building it on SL5. Thanks for the pointer. It does build and work on SL5.5 too. Better than gxps for displaying a .xps file on the screen without needing to convert it to pdf first. But if you do want to convert the file to pdf, or print it, it's not immediately obvious whether mupdf can do that. Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough. Stephen Isard
.xps files on SL5
Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. Thanks, Stephen Isard
Re: .xps files on SL5
Apologies for the double post, forgot to post to the listserv (maybe other people can get some info out of this too): You might try using kpdf... apparently okular is based upon that. That's located in the kdegraphics package. However, it looks like okular is specifically the one that reads xps. There is also ghostxps which can apparently convert from xps to pdf format. (you'll probably have to compile that, but it's easy!) http://www.ghostscript.com/download/ Christopher Tooley On 2011-09-15, at 8:52 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. Thanks, Stephen Isard
Re: .xps files on SL5
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. You might try using kpdf... apparently okular is based upon that. That's located in the kdegraphics package. However, it looks like okular is specifically the one that reads xps. I had tried kpdf, but without success. There is also ghostxps which can apparently convert from xps to pdf format. (you'll probably have to compile that, but it's easy!) http://www.ghostscript.com/download/ Easy, but not quick :-) The documentation for gxps is a bit thin, so I'll include a couple of things I learned in hopes of saving time for the next person who goes through this. You can speed up compilation of gxps by doing 'make xps' instead of 'make', assuming you don't want to compile the pcl interpreter as well. gxps -h gives you commandline options. Use gxps -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=pdf file xps file to convert xps file to pdf file. If you leave out -dNOPAUSE, you are prompted to press ENTER for each separate page of the document. When I ran just gxps xps file the file was displayed on the screen, but there were no controls for moving back and forth among pages, and the text was in a barely readable font. There was a warning on the command line Some glyphs of the font TimesNewRomanPSMT requires a patented True Type interpreter. There was no such warning when I converted to pdf and the text looked much better. Stephen Isard On 2011-09-15, at 8:52 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to read Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (.xps) files on SL5? I've found web postings saying that okular can read them, but I can't find a version of that for SL5. I tried installing kdegraphics, but it wasn't included. It's apparently on the way for evince, but not here yet. Thanks, Stephen Isard
Re: .xps files on SL5
On 09/15/2011 01:33 PM, Stephen Isard wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. Sounds like you've found a free solution. I tried evince 3.0.2 compiled with libgxps (latest git) and it would open xps documents but the pages were blank. Tried this commercial app and it seemed to work great: http://www.sana-tech.com/xps.html
