Luckily, there is an easy way to get an editable copy of your XPS. Reverting the XPS file to its original document format after it had been created with the XPS Document Writer is not possible and especially annoying if you already deleted or never possessed the original document. The most striking one is that XPS files can not be further edited. That also means that they inherit some of the disadvantages of a PDF. Then, select “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” as a printer when printing your document.Īs stated above, XPS files are very similar to PDF files. To create an XPS file, open any document (TXT, RTF, DOC, etc.) in your preferred word processing program on a Windows computer. XPS files can not naturally be edited which makes it a great, even tho lesser known, format for sharing documents with third parties.Ĭontrary to PDF files, XPS files are not written in PostScript, but in XML, a markup language that is both human-readable and machine-readable. Thus, the layout and general appearance of the document remain the same when it’s printed. In more detail, it means that XPS documents contain a fixed page layout. Hence why we at decided to give you a small and handy guide in how to convert XPS files to PDF and then to DOC for further editing and manipulation, or to PDF for printing, sharing and uploading to the web.Īs already explained briefly, XPS is comparable to Adobe’s PDF format. Sometimes, XPS is the only fixed layout file you are able to generate using a Windows computer with installing further programs or software. XPS stands for XML Paper Specification File and it is, so to speak, Microsoft’s alternative to the well known and commonly used Adobe PDF format. Especially when using a Windows computers, you may have stumbled upon these files already:
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