On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:08:21 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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>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