What is a .XPS file?
XPS was Microsoft’s fixed-layout document format, a PDF rival. Created by Microsoft.
- Did you know
- Microsoft introduced XPS with Windows Vista in 2006 to compete with PDF.
- XPS is built on XAML and was adopted as an international standard, ECMA-388, in 2009.
- Windows 8 switched to the standardised OpenXPS variant, which uses the .oxps extension instead.
- What Analyser reads
- Open documents, ebooks and publishing files beyond Office: comic books (CBZ/CBT with ComicInfo + first-page preview; CBR/CB7 identified), Microsoft XPS, FictionBook FB3, iBooks, Scrivener, Visio VSDX, R Markdown/Quarto, RTFD, WARC/MAFF web archives, TeX DVI, legacy Hangul HWP, and WordPerfect/QuarkXPress/PageMaker identification.
- Depth of analysis
- .XPS is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .XPS file
- Drag a .XPS file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.