Have you ever wondered what the XPS Viewer is & what it does? This article explains both the XPS file format and the XPS Viewer tool. You’ll learn what they are, what makes them useful and how to use them.
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This was a great article on XPS. I really learned something new after reading it. Thanks for the link!
Lets be honest, XPS is a failure. Please list some good and bad reasons to use or not to use this.
What if I am on a MAC?
What if I run Linux?
What if I want to view it on my iPhone?
What if I want to view it on my Blackberry / Android / Nokia
In the last 5 years of user support I have not seen or been asked how to view or create a XPS file. Market penetration, a valid reason to use or not to use that format.
PDF is an open standard and XPS was a cynical move by Microsoft that thankfully failed.
I am not sure if You can define this as a cynical move of M$.
PDF is a database of objects, created from PostScript.
XPS is part of Markup language (XML).
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenXPS_and_PDF
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_XML_Paper_Specification
In Linux, Evinc does support (open)XPS, as there is third party support for viewers, tools, conversion, etc from PDFtron, Pagemark and Harlequin_RIP.
So do not judge too fast. It looks as another approach.
PDF is not my choice to read eBooks.
I do convert them to HTML, so they read much better in my Android phone.
So maybe (o)XPS will be a good solution too ?! I give it a try.