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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==
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==Comparison==
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! style="width:15em" | File format
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! 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]]
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! 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>
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! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Latest stable version
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! 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, created from [[PostScript]] and also directly generated from many applications.
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! 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>
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! 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>
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! 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>
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! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Portable / Multiplatform
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni">[http://www.amyuni.com/downloads/Amyuni%20Whitepaper%20-%20PDF%20vs%20XPS.pdf]{{dead link|date=April 2011}}</ref>
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! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Multiple documents in one file
| {{yes}}<ref name="amyuni" />
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! 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>
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! 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>
| page-only with tagged PDF layer<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dlJ94KZqwqcC&pg=PA379 Web accessibility: web standards and ... - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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! 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" />
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! 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" />
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! 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>
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! style="text-align:left; background: #ececec;" | Internet media types
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! File format
! OpenXPS
! PDF
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