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#REDIRECT [[Open XML Paper Specification]] {{R from merge}}
This is a comparison of the [[Open XML Paper Specification|OpenXPS]] [[document file format]] with the [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] [[file format]]. Both file format standards are essentially [[Container format (digital)|containers]] for representing [[Content (media and publishing)|digital content]] in a paper-like fashion.<ref>[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/pdf_and_xps_when_acronyms_compete.html Microsoft Watch - Business Applications - PDF and XPS: When Acronyms Compete<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Design aims==
The differences between Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS) and the Portable Document Format (PDF) can be traced to their [[Virtual Heritage|heritage]] and the manner of their development, as they have different design goals and different groups providing input.
The different goals in the development of OpenXPS and PDF resulted in different principles and design tradeoffs between the file formats.
==Comparison==
{| class="wikitable sortable" cellpadding="1" style="font-size:85%; border:gray solid 1px; text-align:center; width:100%;"
|- style="background: #ececec"
! style="width:15em" | File format
! OpenXPS
! PDF
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Based on a format<br />developed by
| [[Microsoft]]
| [[Adobe Systems]]
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Standardized by
| [[Ecma International]]<ref>[http://www.printweek.com/news/674714/XPS-format-passes-first-standardisation-test/ XPS format passes first standardisation test | printweek.com | Latest Print Industry News, Jobs, Features, Product Reviews, Used Printing and Packaging Machinery<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | First public release date
| 2006<ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpsspec.mspx XML Paper Specification<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| 1993<ref>[http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2005/pdf.asp All About Adobe PDF - Webopedia.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Latest stable version
| Ecma International Standard ECMA-388 — Open XML Paper Specification — 1st Edition
| ISO 32000-1:2008 — Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Latest standardised version
| Ecma International Standard ECMA-388 — Open XML Paper Specification — 1st Edition
| ISO 32000-1:2008 — Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Language type
| [[Markup language]] ([[XML]])<ref name="globalgraphics">http://www.globalgraphics.com/xps/faq.pdf</ref><ref name="verydoc">[http://www.verydoc.com/xps.html XPS: XML Paper Specification<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| PDF is a database of objects that may be created from [[PostScript]] or generated directly by an application.
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | XML schema representation
| [[XML Schema (W3C)]] (XSD) and [[RELAX NG]] (ISO/IEC 19757-2)<ref>[http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-388.htm Standard ECMA-388<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| N/A
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Compression format
| [[ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="globalgraphics" /><ref name="verydoc" /><ref name="zdnet">[http://dictionary.zdnet.com/definition/XML+Paper+Specification.html xml paper specification News and Other Resources | ZDNet<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| [[LZW]] for both text and images; JPEG, [[JPEG 2000]], and [[Run-length encoding|RLE]] for images only<ref>[PDF Reference, Sixth edition, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf], p. 39</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Container structure
| [[Open Packaging Conventions]] (ISO/IEC 29500-2:2008)<ref name="globalgraphics" /><ref name="verydoc" />
|
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[3D computer graphics|3D graphic content]]
| [[X3D]] (ISO/IEC 19775/19776)<ref name="ECMA-388">http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-388.pdf</ref>
| [[Universal 3D|U3D]] (Standard ECMA-363)<ref>[http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat3d/ Acrobat 3D Developer Center | Adobe Acrobat 3D Developer Center<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BLL/is_2_22/ai_n13487390/ | work=CADalyst | title=U3D format debuts in Acrobat 7 | first=Sara | last=Ferris | year=2005}}</ref>
|-
<ref name=amyuni>{{cite web|last=Amiouny|first=Dany|title=PDF or XPS: Choose the Right Document Format for your Applications|url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/21961516/White-Paper-PDF-or-XPS-Choose-the-Right-Document-Format|work=White Paper|accessdate=15 October 2012}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Full file content compression
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{partial|Compression of collections of objects}}<ref name="iso32000">http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502 ISO 32000-1:2008</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Fast page by page download from web servers
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Multiple documents in one file
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref>[https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/p81291074/ A9 PDF Binders<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Document bookmarks and outline
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="pdfzone">http://www.pdfzone.com/c/a/Authoring/Look-Out-Acrobat-Microsoft-XPS-Is-on-Your-Tail/</ref>
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="mactech">[http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.15/15.09/PDFIntro/ PDF Intro<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Reflowable document|Reflowable]]
| {{no}}<ref>[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480192.aspx An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| With Tagged PDF<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dlJ94KZqwqcC&pg=PA379 Web accessibility: web standards and ... - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Hyperlinks
| {{yes}}<ref name="xpsdev"/><ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="informationweek">[http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172901469 Microsoft Adds XPS In Office 12 To Fight Adobe - InformationWeek<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="mactech" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Page thumbnails
| {{yes}}<ref name="xpsdev"/><ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref>http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/219/1/meckler94.pdf</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Annotations]]
| {{yes}}<ref name="xpsdev">[http://www.xpsdev.com/xps-annotator XPS Annotator | XPSDev<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="mactech" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Image transparencies
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Gradient fills
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="informationweek" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Alpha channel]] in color definitions
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Support for multiple transparency blending modes
| {{?}}
| {{yes}}<ref name="iso32000" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Change tracking
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Password protection
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="mactech" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Digital signatures
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="verydoc" /><ref name="zdnet" /><ref name="xpsdev"/>
| {{yes}}<ref name="mactech" /><ref name="filiol">http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-08/Filiol/Presentation/bh-eu-08-filiol.pdf</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[JPEG]] (RGB and CMYK) (ISO/IEC 10918-1)
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" /><ref name="zdnet" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="filiol" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[JPEG 2000]] (ISO/IEC 15444-1)
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="filiol" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[JBIG2]] for grayscale images
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="iso32000" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]]
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]] (RGB and CMYK)
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[HD Photo|HD Photo / JPEG XR]] (ISO/IEC 29199-2:2009)
| {{yes}}<ref name="globalgraphics" />
| {{no}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Grayscale|Gray]] support
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[RGB]] support
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[CMYK]] support
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | [[Spot color]] support
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Filename extensions
| <tt>oxps</tt><ref name="ECMA-388" />
| <tt>pdf</tt><ref>[http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/postscript/WhatIs.html explaining PostScript<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Internet media types
| <tt>application/oxps</tt><ref name="ECMA-388" />
| <tt>application/pdf</tt>
|-
! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Standard licensing
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* Ecma copyrighted free download
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* ISO copyrighted free download
|- style="background: #ececec" class="sortbottom"
! File format
! OpenXPS
! PDF
|}
==See also==
*[[Comparison of document markup languages]]
*[[List of document markup languages]]
==Further reading==
* {{cite book|title=The Portable Document Format Reference Manual|first=Richard|last=Cohn|id=ISBN 978-0201626285}}
* {{cite book|url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1012807.1012810|title=A format design case study: PDF|first=James C.|last=King|id=ISBN 1-58113-848-2}}
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
==External links==
*[http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-388.htm ECMA-388] Open XML Paper Specification
*[http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502 ISO 32000-1:2008] Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7
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