XPS defined
January 13, 2006 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
According to Jeff Bell:
XPS, or the XML Paper Specification, is Microsoft’s new electronic paper format for exchanging documents in their final forms. This Office feature provides a one-way export from Office client applications to an application- and platform-independent, paginated format. More information on XPS is available on Andy Simonds’ blog and at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/.
Unlike the Office Open XML Formats, XPS does not attempt to capture the full structured richness of an Office document. As an electronic paper format, it is all about a high fidelity representation of the output only. Because of this, creation of an XPS document from Office is a one-way, export operation.
This was a good article to read for me as it helped me clarify in my own mind the different file type formats available within the new Office 12. Further clarified in the post is that Office 12 offers multiple types of open document formats.
From what I can tell, there is the standard file format of the new Microsoft Office document formats, save as PDF, and this XPS format.
Read the article to gain more information for yourself as well.
Source: Save as XPS in Office “12” on On Microsoft Publisher and more by Jeff Bell
