XPS -> PDF
- Anyone know of commercial products that will convert from XPS to PDF? Is it still too early to ask this question?
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didn't came across such a product which is already finished yet, but maybe you have a look at "GhostXPS" from Artifex -> http://raph.levien.com/XPS%20only.pdf
however there doesn't exist a beta/release yet, as they're still working on - just contact them for more informations.. but maybe it's helpful anyway?
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didn't came across such a product which is already finished yet, but maybe you have a look at "GhostXPS" from Artifex -> http://raph.levien.com/XPS%20only.pdf
however there doesn't exist a beta/release yet, as they're still working on - just contact them for more informations.. but maybe it's helpful anyway?- That is good information. I'll watch for a beta version. In a year I expect several products to handle this conversion, but XPS might still be too new.
- Conversion of XPS into PDF can easily be done with Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0. And it works. The other day I downloaded the Microsoft Windows Vista Product Guide as XPS, and the conversion in Acrobat worked well. Don't expect files to get as small as if you saved them as XPS in the first place. I have tried to save smaller files as XPS and PDF and if you save a 2-page document with a couple of images in it, it seems that the sizes of the two documents will be appr. the same.
je - I noticed this too. Strange thing is that the Mac version of that same Acrobat 8 doesn't open xps files...
regards,
nixps - Yes, you don't even see the XPS files in the right way on a Mac, do you. We'll have to wait and see, if there'll be an XPS viewer for the Mac. Personally I doubt that, – and who should develop it?
Adobe is working on the Mars project, which is "an XML friendly implementation of PDF"
– look for more info at their site http://labs.adobe.com. If you wanna play, you can convert the file suffixes on XPS and Mars files to .zip and unzip them to see, what's inside.
It will be exciting to see, what happens, when the office people find out, they can print InDesign, Photoshop and more from Vista with XPS – or with PDF. Will they be confused? Will they stay with PDF files? Or will they be curious to try XPS files with one of the many printers, that will be able to print them?
cheers - Can we use it in a devloper code
- Hi,
yes, you can use our technology in your own code, we have API's for C, C++ and C#.
Other langages are possible too.
If you fill out the following form:
http://nixps.com/library_apply.php
You'll receive a link to our SDK, this includes sample code.
Kind regards,
Nick. I have tried GhostXPS and it works!!!
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Download GhostPDL 1.52: http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostpdl-1.52.tar.bz2
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Extract it, then build the entire project: it is simple, just open ghostpdl.sln in Visual Studio 2005, then perform a normal build
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After the build you will find gxps.exe here: \ghostpdl-1.52\ghostpdl-1.52\xps\obj
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Convert your XPS file to PDF format like this: gxps.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf -dNOPAUSE test.xps
I hope it helps.
- Proposed As Answer byjoshuaperry Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:10 PM
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- Don't forget to mention your viewer is $100...
- I believe you will find that the XPS document requires that .NET be present on your machine to view it. Therefore it will not work on a Mac.
Open XPS Files in Firefox
If you want to open XPS files with Firefox then download this IE tab extension .
Viewing XPS Files on Windows XP
Microsoft provides a free XPS reader which can be downloaded from MSDN but make sure you have .NET framework installed on your PC! If not you will be asked to download the missing .Net framework.
* If you are installing Microsoft XPS Viewer (which requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0) on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and do not have previous versions of .NET Framework (1.1 and 2.0) installed, you will be asked to download them during the install process. (45 MB)
** Microsoft XPS Document Writer requires Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 to be installed on your system. Download size 1.5 - 4.4 MB. For More information on the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0, click here
Open XPS File in Internet Explorer
Set Internet Explorer as the default program to read xps file!
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