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o2cool 04-02-2011 03:01 PM

.xps to anything
 
I am working on finding a way to print my homework from work. This place is strict on security but cant seem to figure out how to block ssl to my home box :)

So with homework i cannot access a printer here at work so i just use the MS xps printer to save the files and then ftp them to my box. Then i print from the command line. Just wondering if there is a way to convert a xps file to something else that i can print via ghostscript or something. Any Suggestions?

unSpawn 04-02-2011 06:05 PM

IMHO the best solution would be to print to file in a format that isn't only "open" (apparently XPS is open) but also platform-agnostic like PDF. Opera can print to PDF, as can OpenOffice.org (or whatever spin-offs there currently are) and there are OSS virtual PDF printer targets for ClippyOS as well. Okular and Evince seem to be able to read XPS documents and then there's GhostXPS.

o2cool 04-02-2011 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn (Post 4311875)
IMHO the best solution would be to print to file in a format that isn't only "open" (apparently XPS is open) but also platform-agnostic like PDF. Opera can print to PDF, as can OpenOffice.org (or whatever spin-offs there currently are) and there are OSS virtual PDF printer targets for ClippyOS as well. Okular and Evince seem to be able to read XPS documents and then there's GhostXPS.

So with this package i could convert and print these files from the command line?

unSpawn 04-02-2011 07:26 PM

What makes you think it would do otherwise?

o2cool 04-02-2011 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn (Post 4311914)
What makes you think it would do otherwise?

Because unlike the rest of the Win/Ubuntu users i am perfectly happy with a box that i can only access via a terminal and does not run any kind of a x server.

Secondly, my work connection is slow so remote desktop would make me want to jump out of the second story window

unSpawn 04-02-2011 07:45 PM

I see. Binaries should work in both Linux and ClippyOS from the CLI.


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