PDF -> XPS

Anyone knows of a (free) tool or a .NET library to convert PDF documents (mostly scans) to XPS?

Mucha gracias.

Or even the opposite?

PaoloM said:

Or even the opposite?

Aside from printing them through the built in XPS printer (or PDFCreator to go the other way) you mean?

AndyC said:

PaoloM said:

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Aside from printing them through the built in XPS printer (or PDFCreator to go the other way) you mean?

Well, i was looking for something more automated

PaoloM said:

AndyC said:

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Well, i was looking for something more automated

I am also interested as I like using XPS for storage but I often have to convert to PDF becuase of legacy issues.

Sounds like someone needs to make such a thing...

Ideally, we could get rid of Adobe Reader, and just have some program convert to XPS.

PaoloM said:

AndyC said:

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Well, i was looking for something more automated

You might check www.pdfsharp.com for XPS->PDF conversion. The latest build includes a converter preview.

For going the other way, I haven't seen any free tools. You may be able to use PDFSharp to open the PDF and XpsDocumentWriter or System.Printing to convert to XPS.

Anyone gotten anywhere with this, the navigation in XPS is awesome.

PaoloM said:

AndyC said:

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Well, i was looking for something more automated

Create an XPS printer driver that redirects the output of the GDI -> XPS converter to the file of your choice, then print the PDFs through the shell.  

contextfree said:

PaoloM said:

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Create an XPS printer driver that redirects the output of the GDI -> XPS converter to the file of your choice, then print the PDFs through the shell.  

Well if I remember right XPS is done with a WPF Xaml subset...so if you want to export XPS to PDF you would want to keep the graphics as graphics and text as text, etc. And XPS can't do hyperlinks so you have that issue.

Interesting.  I thought that writing a simple batch script to print the files using the .xps printer would do the trick.  It seems that you can't access the .xps printer through the command line.  It gives back the error PRN unable to initiate, so flipped it around and tried using the quicken .pdf printer, and no go there either. 

Good luck in finding the solution.

RLO said:

Interesting.  I thought that writing a simple batch script to print the files using the .xps printer would do the trick.  It seems that you can't access the .xps printer through the command line.  It gives back the error PRN unable to initiate, so flipped it around and tried using the quicken .pdf printer, and no go there either. 

 

Good luck in finding the solution.

Mike Swanson does have that Illustrator plugin that goes from AI -> Xaml, so there's gotta be a way to reverse it from Xaml into .AI. And AI  files are just PDF. If you rename myfile.ai, to myfile.pdf it opens up in Acrobat.

This has worked for us:

Amyuni makes a product that prints PDFs, and I've personally seen it print to xps, but it isn't strictly .NET in that the .NET classes wrap a COM dll.