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    <p>On my Lenovo T500 notebook running Ubuntu Natty, with 2 GByte RAM, using GhostPDL 9.02, it took 2.3 seconds to convert a Microsoft-provided 38 page XPS (<a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/6/726aa31c-2465-4dff-baec-0c7240f0c2da/ExchangeServer2007_AdminComp_chapter_02.xps" rel="nofollow">ExchangeServer2007_ AdminComp_ chapter_02.xps</a>) to a perfect PDF document:</p> <pre><code> time gxps \ -dDEBUG \ -o ExchangeServer2007_AdminComp_chapter_02.xps.gxps.pdf \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ ExchangeServer2007_AdminComp_chapter_02.xps real 0m2.213s user 0m1.852s sys 0m0.200s </code></pre> <p>However, I think <code>gxps</code> (the GhostPDL command that can convert XPS to PDF currently does not provide any standard means to make it more chatty on stdout -- not even <code>-dDEBUG</code> does work)...</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update:</strong> I'm not <em>familiar</em> with any other tool that can convert XPS to PDF directly, but I <em>know</em> there's a bunch of them. You may be more lucky if you consult Google search results.</p> <p><strike>Of course you can always <em>print</em> the XPS to a "PDF Printer". There are different ways to do that on the commandline, which may give you some progress feedback.</p> <p>If you know in advance how many pages you'll have to convert, a (crappy) workaround with GhostPDL could be to convert the file in chunks, using a construct like <code>-dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=10</code> and inform the user that <em>currently pages 1-10 out of NNN</em> are being processed.</strike></p> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong> Here is a way how to get a feedback on stdout as each page is being processed:</p> <pre><code> time gxps \ '-Z|' \ -o ExchangeServer2007_AdminComp_chapter_02.xps.gxps.pdf \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ ExchangeServer2007_AdminComp_chapter_02.xps </code></pre> <p>Note the single quotes <code>'</code> around the <code>-Z|</code>. The second char is a <em>Pipe</em> sign, not a capital <em>i</em>... Result:</p> <pre><code> start part /FixedDocumentSequence.fdseq fixdoc /Documents/1/FixedDocument.fdoc page /Documents/1/Pages/1.fpage w=0 h=0 page /Documents/1/Pages/2.fpage w=0 h=0 page /Documents/1/Pages/3.fpage w=0 h=0 [....] page /Documents/1/Pages/37.fpage w=0 h=0 page /Documents/1/Pages/38.fpage w=0 h=0 </code></pre> <p>Thanks to Ghostscript developer Tor Anderson who gave me the decisive hint in the <em>#ghostscript</em> IRC channel on Freenode.</p>
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    1. COi'm still open to any other alternatives. any suggestions?
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    2. COdo you know any free PDF printers available?
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    3. CO@Jonathan Ablanida: Please look at my second update above. Hope this helps.
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