Comment Feed for PDF -> XPS (Coffeehouse on Channel 9)

Re: PDF -> XPS

ScanIAm — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:21:52 GMT

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.

Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

Harlequin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:51:13 GMT

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.

Re: PDF -> XPS

Robert Oswalt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:44:02 GMT

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.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

Harlequin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:14:41 GMT

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.

Re: Re: Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

contextfree — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:33:59 GMT

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. :P

Re: PDF -> XPS

intelman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:26:39 GMT

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

Re: Re: Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

n4cer — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:43:12 GMT

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.

Re: PDF -> XPS

intelman — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:42:34 GMT

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.

Re: Re: Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

Gio — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:39:58 GMT

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

Re: Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

PaoloM — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:10:11 GMT

Well, i was looking for something more automated :)

Re: Re: PDF -> XPS

AndyC — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:17:07 GMT

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

Re: PDF -> XPS

PaoloM — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:12:14 GMT

Or even the opposite? :)