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Both XPS and PDF file types are fixed formatting and layout document formats to make, read, and print standard documents regardless of system and printer. Since PDF is far more known and compatible in different systems compared to XPS, we might want to convert XPS files to PDF from time to time.
What is XPS?
Developed by Microsoft as a document type alternative to PDF, XML Paper Specification (or XPS) is an open, standardized format representing a fixed layout document. Windows Vista and later versions of windows support this file format. However, .oxps (OpenXPS) replaced .xps extension in Windows 8, which is not supported by older versions of Windows. So in order to view OXPS documents in Windows 7’s XPS Viewer users should convert them to XPS format.
The main tool for creating XPS files in Windows is Microsoft XPS Document Writer which works as a virtual printer saving document outputs to .xps file types. This might sound very similar to a feature called “print to PDF” included in some other tools and software.
XPS and PDF formats are both document types which are device-independent and very similar to each other. For instance both include features such as DRM and digital signatures.
Why convert .xps files?
In fact, despite so many similarities between PDF and XPS formats, XPS files never become as nearly popular as PDF files, although Microsoft first introduced it as “PDF killer.” The main reason for converting XPS files to PDF is that PDF is known almost everywhere and viewable by any devices used at home and business.
Say, for example, a user wants to view a document on their Mac which has built-in support for PDF files, but none for XPS files. So a good solution is to use an XPS converter before trying to open the document on their system.
The Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) is a print-to-file driver that enables a Windows application to create XML Paper Specification (XPS) document files on versions of Windows starting with Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2). Document Writer 1.6.3 for Mac is available as a free download on our application library. Document Writer for Mac lies within Productivity Tools, more precisely Office Tools. The actual developer of this Mac application is Xiongf Inc. Our antivirus scan shows that this Mac download is clean.
In addition, mobile gadgets such as Android phones and tablets and iOS powered devices like iPad and iPhone have all better supports for PDF documents as well.
So in all these cases it’s very normal to convert XPS files to PDF in order to have a better compatibility on different devices and operating systems.
Method 1:
The fastest way to create PDF files from .xps or .oxps formats is using online tools available for these kinds of file processes. Some of them could be found below:
Online2PDF
The website offers lots of possible free PDF conversions. In addition to the types we want here, other document types such as .txt, .rtf, .doc, and .docx could also be uploaded to generate .pdf files as well. There is a 50MB file size limit for file uploading.
XPS2PDF
For those seeking an online, free tool which do the task quick and simply, XPS2PDF is the right choice. The conversion is only possible for OXPS and XPS files. Users could convert no more than 100 documents in each day.
PDFaid
Another free online converter which does the task as expected. The file size limit here is much lower (20MB). Before uploading the files, users could set some properties such as author and title of their output PDF files as well.
Method 2:
The second method for XPS conversion is taking use of advanced PDF tools and applications. In the following some of them are reviewed:
novaPDF
This software acts as a virtual printer for Windows to make PDF files. Anywhere within different applications and programs which users could print a document, they could choose novaPDF as the printer and have PDF files in the output. So, in our case all should be done is opening the .xps file in a print supporting application such as Internet Explorer and print (save to PDF) the document through the novaPDF printer.
The application is supported by various versions of Windows (XP-10 & Server 2003/2008/2012). Currently no Mac or Linux version has been released yet.
PDF2Office Professional
PDF2Office is a powerful PDF converter which could recognize XPS files and convert them to PDF and Microsoft Office compatible extensions such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
The software is developed by Recosoft Corporation and is available for both Mac and Windows users.
iSkysoft PDF Editor
This powerful application could take different document and image file types such as HTML, PPT, Excel and Word as input and produce documents with PDF formats. Also the desire XPS to PDF is quite possible using this tool.
iSkysoft PDF Editor could be downloaded and installed on Win and Mac computers.
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Several years ago, Microsoft announced their new document format XPS (Open XML Paper Specification), which sounded not so bad and it was meant to replace the well established PDF-format from Adobe. That was around 2009. Since then it has been integrated in the Windows operating system and MS Office software such as Word, Excel etc. So instead exporting a PDF, you can export an XPS-file. However in reality, PDF is still the industry standard now in 2015 and it’s rather rarely used. Everyone can open PDFs although often people open PDFs with very strange viewers ;-) so the PDF does not look as intended.
Sometimes I’m working on a Windows machine, or on a virtual machine, so lately I got a mail with an invoice but in HTML-format. I wanted to convert that mail to PDF, so that I could send it to someone properly. I noticed that Outlook does not offer the option to export to PDF directly. However XPS is available. You choose to print the document and instead of choosing the printer, you can choose the „Microsoft XPS Document Writer“.
Your document is then saved directly to an XPS-file. You can open it in Windows’ XPS-Viewer. But then – how do you open an XPS if you’re not on a new Windows machine. On Mac for example? And how do you convert the XPS to PDF?
Google-Docs to help
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Adobe says that Acrobat Pro would be able to convert XPS-files (In Acrobat Pro: „Use File > Create PDF > From File“). Well, I don’t know but my document did not work with Acrobat Pro DC. Maybe with older Acrobats? There are tons of XPS-viewers that you can download. But after a little research, I found out that Google-Docs is also able to read XPS-files. As many people have a Google Login and if you don’t want to download a software just to convert an XPS once in a while, this way seems to be the easiest one (if you are on Mac)
You just go to your Google-Drive (drive.google.com) and select New > File Upload.
After uploading your XPS you can view the file by doubleclicking it. It opens in a window where the rest of the screen is darkened. On the top you can see an icon with a printer.
As we did already in the first step, we won’t actually print the file, but print it virtually to PDF. To do this, you have to choose the option „Open PDF in Preview“.
Microsoft Xps Document Writer Download Mac Software
That’s it. From there you can save the document as a regular PDF.