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
PDF advocates answer that a properly prepared PDF embeds fonts and graphics, it does not need a larger color space (16 bits/pixel are available in both XPS and PDF and that only determines the number of color gradations in a gamut, not the dynamic range), and a less expensive strategy for transferring files is not meaningful when there is limited ability to open or edit the files on popular computer platforms such as Apple’s Macintosh.
- Companies:
- Quark Inc.
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