Tag: XPS

I do my best to minimize confusion and headaches for my retail customers. One thing that never fails to confuse and annoy is the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. Most of them have no idea what it is or how it got added to their list of printers. To avoid phone calls from people saying things like "I thought you sold me an HP," I usually just click the icon, press delete, and go about my business. ...

I don't know if you remember reading a while back about Adobe suing Microsoft over including "save to PDF" functionality, but Microsoft has now released the "save to PDF/XPS" plug-in for the 2007 Office system as promised. XPS is a proprietary Microsoft spec (like PDF), in case you hadn't heard. Save to PDF functionality is huge for me. I save so many things to PDF, usually with PDF creator (which ...