I need to get out of the terrible Microsoft PDF competition "XPS" files (Microsoft Word can't even open them)? I was surprised at how little there was out there for this format. It comes with every copy of Windows but seems to have no functionality from Microsoft beyond:
- 1. Create
2. View
3. Print
My guess is that this was created when Microsoft ran into problems some time back with adding export-to-PDF functionality to Office. So they pasted this extremely basic feature into their OS and then shrugged.
Does anyone know how to get files exported out of this junk format?
Tested so far: LibreOffice, Inkscape, GIMP, IrfanView, FS Image Viewer, XNview. Only Universal Viewer can *view* them, which is roughly the same as Microsoft's built-in XPS viewer.
I have Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (non-free) on my machine which will quickly and seamlessly convert it to PDF, but the only free thing I can find is use PDFCreator [http://www.pdfforge.org/] (non-portable) to do a print-to-PDF.
http://www.prepressure.com/library/technology/xps
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... =windows-7
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Solution 1: To convert to PDF, do the following:
ONLYOFFICE (not portable as of this writing) has a super easy conversion system. You literally open the XPS file and then just save it to PDF. In my tests, it worked great.
Solution 2: To convert to PNG or PDF, do the following:
Requires
- STDU Viewer (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2045)
- I2PDF (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1908)
- Open the XPS file in STDU Viewer
- From the File menu select Export - To Image
- In the next window under "Image Type" select PNG and save to a temporary folder
- Open I2PDF, drag-and-drop images, and click Build PDF
- In LibreOffice, open a new Draw document (File - New - Drawing)
- From the Insert menu, choose Image and select the first PNG file
- If the XPS file was multi-page, select Insert - Slide and repeat step 5
- From the file menu, select Export as PDF