What is a XPS Viewer

Posted Date: 28-Jul-2010		Category: Microsoft Windows
Author: Raghav	Member Level: Gold
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What is a XPS Viewer

The XPS (XML paper specification) files are similar to PDF format files. The XPS format is a format of Microsoft which is a competitor to PDF format. You can view a XPS document using XPS viewer. Let us see what is an XPS viewer.

The XPS document is a file with an extension of '.xps'. The XPS documents can be created by any program that has the print feature. For example you can create a XPS document from MS Word, MS Power point, MS EXcel etc. Just select File->Print and select the printer name as "Microsoft Office XPS document writer" and save it as an .xps file. You can see a screen shot below of how to save a document as a .xps file.
Screen shot of saving a file as XPS document in Windows 7

Screen shot of saving a file as XPS document in Windows 7

The XPS files can only be viewed using the XPS viewer. If the XPS viewer is installed in your computer, you can view a XPS document just by double clicking on the document.

Many options are available in XPS viewer for managing the xps documents:

You can save a copy of the XPS document on your computer

You can search the XPS document for a word or a sentence by using XPS Viewer similar to what we do in MS Word

It is possible to zoom in or out so that we can easily read the text and pictures

It is possible to digitally sign the document

You can also set permissions so that only the permitted people can access the document. This is done by applying the document permissions in XPS Viewer

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