XPS Viewer
XPS is Microsoft’s universally unpopular response to the universally popular Adobe PDF page description file format. You can print from any application using the Microsoft XPS Document Writer virtual printer, which creates a file that has all the text, graphics, and font information needed to display the “printed” page. The XPS Viewer can then display the file exactly as it would have looked on paper. XPS Viewer programs come with Windows 8, 7, and Vista, and can be downloaded for Windows XP. Also, third-party viewers are available for Apple’s OS X and Linux.
What you may not have known: On Windows 8, as it’s initially installed, the .xps file extension is associated with the Windows 8–style Reader application. I personally don’t like ...
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