Most of the tools shown when searching for "xps to pdf converter" are online. A few offline tools available require install and don't provide quality conversion. They seem to convert xps to image and then image to pdf.
I am looking for a free and portable (optional) xps converter for Windows that converts XPS to PDF preserving the text content wherever possible.
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manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/xpstopdf.1.html ?– Franck DernoncourtJul 16, 2014 at 3:44
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@FranckDernoncourt I am using MS Windows.– AviJul 17, 2014 at 11:28
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NovaPDF seems to be a good one, but it's free for trial only.– NeekuJul 18, 2014 at 10:43
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1They also have doPDF . It's free but large in size 40mb– AviJul 22, 2014 at 12:02
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1@KurtPfeifle I saw your answer only today. Thanks, a command-line tool will be handy at times.– AviJul 7, 2015 at 1:50
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If you can open the XPS document then a pdf printer should work quite well.
I have often used PDFCreator for this exact task. If there is text in a document that it is printing it maintains that as a text format rather than text->image->pdf which truely does suck.
It is free and you can convert to many more formats as well. Some versions of the installer want to install semi-junk toolbars so make sure to unselect them unless for some bizarre reasons you do want them.
answered Jul 19, 2014 at 17:42
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1This brings us to the need for an app to open XPS. Can you complement the answer with this? Sep 8, 2015 at 5:17
GhostPDL, by the same developers as the better-known Ghostscript software, contains a module called "GhostXPS".
You can download GhostXPS here. You can use it under the GPL as well as under a commercial license. There are pre-compiled binaries for Windows as well as Linux available (plus a source code license in order to self-compile it on other platforms, like Mac OS X).
To convert an XPS file to a PDF, use this command:
gxps -o out.pdf \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
input.xps
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@danicotra: This (v8.71) definitely is not a newer version of GhostXPS! Oct 30, 2016 at 19:26
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You're right, sorry, I definitely mistaken! Gonna change my comment and cross link the other answer too. Oct 30, 2016 at 19:29
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This is a good solution when you can't install a PDF printer. Linking to another possible syntax to do the same thing using GhostXPS Oct 30, 2016 at 19:30