XPS Files

[mcp6453]

How popular is the use of XPS files created with the XPS printer driver built
into XP? Normally I save things with Adobe Acrobat, but I don't know it on a new
computer, and with its price out the roof, I may decide to go another way.
(There are some free PDF printer drivers and converters as well as an Acrobat
substitute - NitroPDF - but this question is about XPS files. What is the
likelihood that Microsoft will one day abandon the format and leave me with a
bunch of files that I cannot open?

 

[Martin Potestas]

What is the likelihood that Microsoft will
one day abandon the format and leave me with a bunch of files that I
cannot open?

I don't really see the XPS format as a competitor to the PDF format.
Nobody knows what the future brings - but I never seen the XPS format in
use at any of the costumers that I have been with.

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Kind regards

Martin Potestas
Microsoft MCP | Astaro ACA, ACE
CompTIA A+, Server+, Linux+

 

[Dave F.]

mcp6453Dwrote:

How popular is the use of XPS files created with the XPS printer driver
built into XP? Normally I save things with Adobe Acrobat, but I don't
know it on a new computer, and with its price out the roof, I may decide
to go another way. (There are some free PDF printer drivers and
converters as well as an Acrobat substitute - NitroPDF - but this
question is about XPS files. What is the likelihood that Microsoft will
one day abandon the format and leave me with a bunch of files that I
cannot open?

IMO They need to implement 3d capabilities into it.
Such as AutoDESK's DWF format.

When that happens then it will be a force (over PDF) to be reckoned with.

As it stands it's still a good, lightweight 2d document viewer.

Everything appears to be going XML (which is what XPS is based on) these
days.

Ta
Dave F.