Microsoft’s XPS document standard sounds and looks a lot like Adobe’s industry-standard PDF format. But will it perform as well in the printing workflow? Two camps are already forming. Fans of XPS say it is better than PDF because the fonts ar

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“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.

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