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Why has Microsoft decided to do this? Is there a reason why they wanted to create a pdf-like format? I searched the microsoft website and found nothing. Maybe if someone finds a formal reason from Microsoft, you can add it to the article.
: I don't have a formal reason from Microsoft, but the primary purpose of XPS is to be a method of printing. You make various printing calls that are converted into XPS XML and then shipped off to the printer driver. Thus, communicating with a printer "directly" requires only throwing an XPS XML document at it. As a useful side effect, you can print to a file that can easily be read by other programs (whether print drivers or GUI applications). Lastly, you have the potential ability to algorithmically convert any document into XPS without bothering with graphics calls and the Windows XPS converter. [[User:Korval|Korval]] 21:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
: Why create a new file format? You still need to process it before sending it to the printer, because no printer can print XPS directly. On the other hand, PS can be sent directly to most printers, and also PDF. Lots of printers nowadays hade support for direct PDF printing. After all, it's just a subset of PS so it is easy to implement in any PostScript printer. To me, this XPS thing looks just like GDI with a new name!!?
Yeah, good question... Also, why isn't the Word doc format not good for this...<small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:194.102.124.102|194.102.124.102]] ([[User talk:194.102.124.102|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/194.102.124.102|contribs]])-28T18:48:28.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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