Adobe PDF vs. Microsoft XPS

“The XPS format does not support Type 1 fonts directly; XPS only supports fonts in the OpenType format. Applications that create XPS, including the ‘Save as XPS’ add-in for Office 2007, need to convert from Type 1 to OpenType,” he added.

OpenType is a cross-platform font format developed by Adobe and Microsoft, and Ford suggested those who want a non-Microsoft source of information should visit www.adobe.com/type/opentype . He noted that “because the XPS format enforces font licensing flags, the ‘Save as XPS’ add-in for Office does not provide an option to override rasterization of glyphs. If a font is not licensed for embedding, then the glyphs are rasterized.” The only problem here is that Type 1 fonts do not use font licensing flags.