Linux Saves The Day

Barb gets these coupons by email for some of her favourite stores.  They usually come in the email and she can claim them at the store from her iPod.  However, she got a coupon as a attachment and needed to print it out.  We didn't have a printer any more but I told her she might be able to print it as a file.  She tried and the file came out in XPS format.  We couldn't figure out any way to view an XPS file.  I found out that XPS was an old format that Windows had developed to compete with PDF but it never caught on.  I looked up ways to convert XPS files for PDF files but there was no free software that I could find.  Then I thought to look on Linux.  I no longer had a Linux system on my computer since I got my new computer but I did have a version that I had installed on an emulator called Virtual Box.  So I went into Linux in Virtual Box and found an XPS to PDF conversion software package for free.  I was able to convert the XPS file to a PDF file and then I emailed it to Barb and she was able to take it to the store and show them the coupon on her iPod.