Convert XPS to PDF on Linux and Mac using bash

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Convert XPS to PDF on Linux and Mac

1. Download this file

2. chmod +x ./xps2pdf.bash

3. To convert a particular xps file: ./xps2pdf.bash thefile.xps

4. To convert all xps files in the current working directory: ./xps2pdf.bash *.xps

It will create the pdf files with the same creation time as the original xps files.

Thanks to Sriram Thaiyar for the original ruby version which figures out GhostPDL can be used for the conversion, which is the crux of the operation.

Extracted from https://github.com/balupton/dotfiles/blob/master/.scripts/commands/xps2pdf

xps2pdf.bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Extras
function command_exists {
	type "$1" &> /dev/null
	# fish not bash: type --quiet "$1"
}
function command_missing {
	! command_exists "$1"
}

# Download a file
alias download='down'
function down {
	# do not use the continue flags as they will prefer the local file over the remote file if the local exists
	if command_exists aria2c; then
		aria2c --allow-overwrite=true --auto-file-renaming=false "$1"
	elif command_exists wget; then
		wget -N "$1"
	elif command_exists curl; then
		curl -OL "$1"
	elif command_exists http; then
		http -d "$1"
	fi
}

# XPS to PDF
cwd=$(pwd)
bin=gxps
if command_missing $bin; then
	bin=$HOME/bin/ghostpdl-9.20/bin/gxps
	if command_missing $bin; then
		echo "downloading and compiling gxps dependency to $bin"
		mkdir -p $HOME/bin
		cd $HOME/bin
		down https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs920/ghostpdl-9.20.tar.gz
		tar -zxvf ghostpdl-9.20.tar.gz
		rm ghostpdl-9.20.tar.gz
		cd ./ghostpdl-9.20
		./configure
		make
		cd $cwd
	fi
fi

echo "converting $# files"
for xps in "$@"
do
	file=$(echo "$xps" | sed 's/...$//')
	pdf=${file}pdf

	echo "converting $xps to $pdf"
	$bin -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$pdf" -dNOPAUSE "$xps"

	if command_exists GetFileInfo && command_exists SetFile; then
		echo "setting creation time"
		local ctime=$(GetFileInfo -m "$xps")
		SetFile -d "$ctime" "$pdf"
	fi
done