How can I open an .xps file in Evince?

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Published on 2012-03-14T09:27:38Z Indexed on 2012/03/27 17:44 UTC
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On projects.gnome.org I read that evince/Document Viewer supports xps-files. But when I try to open an xps-file I get the error message

Unable to open document
File type Zip archive (application/zip) is not supported

Reading "the full list of supported document formats" on live.gnome.org I can't find xps there.

Now I ask myself (and you): Isn't Document Viewer able to open xps-files, or is there something wrong with that xps-file I try to open?

I specifically want to do this with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.

The PPA ppa:medigeek/evince-xps has no solution for 11.10, and the xpstopdf utility mixes up the letters from my xps file totally - the new pdf then isn't usable.

I want to see a solution for Evince or Gnome in general, not get a recommendation for a KDE application like here.

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