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

By Howie Fenton

Since our initial conversation with Ford, we have received confirmed reports of Type 1 font problems in XPS and PDF files.

According to Shafath Syed, Adobe product manager for Electronic Publishing, one of the best ways to get XPS files into a PDF workflow may be to import them into Acrobat 8 on the Windows platform and export a PDF, then preflight and repair the PDF file (if necessary), using Acrobat 8 or other preflight programs such as Quite a Box of Tricks, Enforces Pit Stop, or the new Enforces Neo. After passing the preflight check or completing repairs, the PDF should print out correctly using the original PostScript driver in Vista.

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