There are third-party viewer applications that can read XPS files, but support is nowhere near as common. XPS seems neglected, like another Microsoft technology introduced around the same time: Silverlight. Browse All iPhone Articles Browse All Mac Articles Do I need one? Browse All Android Articles Browse All Smart Home Articles Customize the Taskbar in Windows Browse All Microsoft Office Articles What Is svchost.
Browse All Privacy and Security Articles Browse All Linux Articles Browse All Buying Guides. Best Portable Monitors. Best Gaming Keyboards. Best Drones. Best 4K TVs. Click Insert and locate the Text section. Click Object , which opens a new window. In the Object window, select the option to Create From File. Click Browse and navigate to the location of the XPS file. Click the check box option for Display as Icon and click OK.
Click the green Upload button on the CometDocs website. Navigate and click the XPS file you want to convert. Click Open. Click XPS to Word to begin the conversion process. To receive your file, click Enter Email and provide your email address. Click Send. Open Google Drive. Because of the structure of XPS files, their description of a document does not change based on the operating system or printer and is consistent across all platforms.
XPS files share a document with others so that what you see on the page is the same as what they'll see when they use an XPS viewer program. Some XPS files may instead be related to Action Replay files used with some video games, but Microsoft's format is much more common. Linux users can use Pagemark's programs to open XPS files, too. Because you might need different programs to open different XPS files, see How to Change the Default Program for a Specific File Extension in Windows if it's automatically opening in a program that you don't want to use it with.
After the file is loaded on that website, select from a handful of formats to convert the XPS file to, and then download the new file back to your computer. Drag the file onto the page or click Choose File , and then select the convert button when you're ready to download the PDF.
The website PDFaid. Just upload the XPS file and choose the conversion format. Download the converted right there from the website. The Able2Extract program does the same but isn't free.
It does, however, let you convert an XPS file to an Excel document, which could be really handy depending on what you're planning to use the file for. With Action Replay files, just rename it from whatever. SPS files. And before anyone says anything about apps that do that…they all suck. And I mean that in the worst way, without any euphemism. The guy who created it has some real ego problems, considering the app is about as good as most fourth graders could produce.
Thanks for this article and all the comments. Extremely helpful, as usual! Why does microsoft insist on creating formats that will never be accepted?
Come on Microsoft… get real! WMV is still very much in use and beats the fack out of most other formats for size and quality. It is quicker and a whole lot easier than XPS. One thing for sure PDF has always worked on every computer I have owned. I think may-be that MS ought to stick to creating a good operating system like XP and then leave it alone just like Apple has done! For those that think XPS is free you ought to stop and think of how many hours and how much money you spend to keep Vista from crashing as I thought the whole Vista OS was a disaster from the very beginning and it just kept getting worse.
Provide features to annotate any XPS documents, can convert XPS to an image files, support digital signatures, can adding document properties. I make organisational charts for my company. That is interesting feedback but it points more to the good support for XPS in Visio than to an actual advantage of the XPS file format. That means Visio is garbage. Silly reason to use not to use the most common and easily support format out there. If you are having problems install any of the FREE pdf printers available out there.
Remember that Visio is a Microsoft product, so of course it would work better with xps than with pdf. Are you high? Your email address will not be published. Example of an XPS icon. Windows 7 XPS printer icon. The well and most documented pahe I have ever read on the subject. Well done!!! Note that printing to. Old article but I just had a few thoughts. Any solution?
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