XPS file format not supported

Thanks for the report, right that would be good to have. There's an upstream bug about it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321868 it was opened almost 4 years ago but there's no plan to include that in next release AFAIK, but patches are welcome to implement the feature, you can comment and follow up on the upstream bug I've commented previously, thanks in advance.

For the time being, I've resorted to using Okular...

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Ubuntu 11.10: Evince still does not support XPS, any progress on that? Regarding this

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321868

it should be supported.

it would require libgxps to be packaged first, which didn't happen yet...

libgxps 0.2.0 package ready.
Some minor lintian errors:

I: libgxps2: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libgxps.so.2.0.0
I: libgxps2: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
I: libgxps2: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
I: libgxps source: binary-control-field-duplicates-source field "section" in package libgxps2
I: libgxps source: duplicate-short-description libgxps-dev libgxps2 libgxps-utils libgxps-docs

I'm not familiar with the symbols file, so if you would like to introduce the package to ubuntu/debian, please do so.

Thank you for your work, could you open a new bug about that? You can read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages about details on how to summit a new source

Filed a needs-packaging bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/912789
I'll read through the debian mentors introductory page and see if I can file an ITP bug.

libgxps status update: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/912789
working ppa (currently evince for 12.04): https://launchpad.net/~medigeek/+archive/evince-xps

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Thanks for your work on this.

I just noticed that xps is in universe, while evince is in main. Can you please follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess to get it reviewed for main inclusion? Until then I'll unsubscribe the sponsors team.

MIR request for libgxps: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgxps/+bug/965467

upload to quantal-proposed:

evince (3.5.2-0ubuntu5) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
...
* Enable XPS support. (LP: #965467, LP: #375038)

Under Precise:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 evince : Depends: libevdocument3-4 (= 3.5.3-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libevview3-3 (= 3.5.3-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1018665

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

The fix is in quantal, not precise. We might be able to do a feature upload to -backports for this.

There's a PPA for precise: https://launchpad.net/~medigeek/+archive/evince-xps/
(I just noticed that there's a new version on top of the patched one, I'll try and push the patched version for precise this weekend)

A -backports version of evince with libgxps support would be great!

I really need this to work as I have old .xps tax return forms and I do not want to install okular... I like gnome, it's what I want to use... Please fix! I'm running Precise Pangolin.

On 19 July 2012 02:59, Benjamin J Norton <email address hidden> wrote:

> I really need this to work as I have old .xps tax return forms and I do
> not want to install okular... I like gnome, it's what I want to use...
> Please fix! I'm running Precise Pangolin.
>

I've just uploaded a new package version, it should be available in the ppa
in about an hour or so: https://launchpad.net/~medigeek/+archive/evince-xps/

Enabling new features is not really something we do in stable update but as mentioned before that might be something for a backport or a ppa build

I filed a bug for backport: https://bugs.launchpad.net/precise-backports/+bug/1026524