Adobe PDF vs. Microsoft XPS
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
In the Microsoft Office Suite 2007 for the Microsoft Windows Vista platform, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files can be saved as 2007 application files, backward compatible (able to be opened with earlier program versions) application files or in the new XPS format. The Windows 2007 files are not backward compatible unless you save them as such and the new XPS file format is not cross-platform compatible unless you buy a viewer (similar to Acrobat reader).
- Companies:
- Quark Inc.
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