CNET Editors' review
XPS files, where XPS stands for XML Paper Specification, define the layout, printing specifications, and other factors about a document. They're similar to PDFs, but are based on XML. Windows has a built-in XPS Viewer that opens automatically when you click an XPS file, but it's pretty basic. XPS Annotator is a free, full-featured, standalone XPS file viewer, document annotator, XPS-to-image converter, properties adder and editor, and digital document signing tool. It has familiar operations such as zoom, search, save, copy, and print to a variety of output options. It supports hyperlinks, too.
XPS Annotator is a compact program that has several installation options, including a totally portable installation, but we chose to run the Windows-style setup wizard. The program's interface is very clean and simple, with a blank document window and simple file menus and control icons for printing, copying, and zooming in and out on documents, as well as set page layouts. We navigated to an XPS file and selected it. A thumbnail preview of the file appeared in the right half of the Open File dialog, a useful touch. We opened the file in XPS Annotator, which displayed it in the main view. We clicked Signatures, and a properties dialog for signing documents opened. We entered our data in the appropriate fields, clicked Sign, and then clicked Done. We then reopened Signatures and edited the one we'd created, changing several entries, and saved it. Next we clicked Properties, and a Properties Dialog template opened with blank fields. We entered our document data and clicked OK. We closed the document, returned to the desktop, and opened the document in the built-in Windows XPS Viewer, which correctly identified the new digital signature. We clicked Properties, and the properties dialog we'd just created appeared. We also tried the Permissions and Request Signatures functions, which worked as advertised.
This free tool does much more than the native Windows utility, but it's just as easy to use. XPS Annotator is recommended to anyone who handles XPS documents.
Publisher's Description
From Danang Probo Sayekti:
XPS Annotator is an exclusive standalone XPS Viewer, XPS documents annotator, XPS to image converter, XPS documents properties adder and XPS documents digital signer. Support for common operations including save-a-copy, print-output, copy-to-clipboard, zoom, and text-search. Allow you to add notes or comments to an XPS documents, convert your XPS documents to an image files, can adding document properties to any XPS document and provides document security with its digital signatures.
What's new in this version: Version 1.22 has ability to change the highlight annotations color, hyperlink support and bug fixes for non en-US language OS.
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3.8 starsout of 6 votes
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"Only Opens"
Version: XPS Annotator 1.22
Pros
Opens xps files, can print to an image
Cons
Doesn't allow editing functions that it claims, which is the only reason I even downloaded this program. I will be uninstalling this now because it doesn't help me in the slightest.
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"Works perfect..."
Version: XPS Annotator 1.22
Pros
Seems that a lot of companies are using xps files...needed this software.
Cons
no cons found for this download.
Summary
Works great...good download.
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"Good viewer but lacks the ability to print"
Version: XPS Annotator 1.22
Pros
Makes opening and viewing xps files easy.
Cons
No print facilty
Summary
Other alternatives include the ability to print (e.g. XPS Annotator).
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"This product works very well and simple to use."
Version: XPS Annotator 1.22
Pros
Easy to install and use. Opens the file in its own application and you don't have to use Internet Explorer to view the file. Easy to zoom and tile pages. Easy to use text search
Cons
When printing from it will not allow you to select specific pages, you must print the entire document.
Summary
This is just what I needed , it works well !
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"Good program for who needs open files xps"
Version: XPS Annotator 1.22
Pros
Easy interface, fast istallation.
It goes well, no problemCons
not cons at thi moment
Summary
software that you can download and istall good.
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"Great tool!"
Version: XPS Annotator 1.22
Pros
We can edit xps.
Cons
not found now
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