XPS vs PDF. What's the status?

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Published on 2009-11-20T17:40:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 2:23 UTC
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XPS, the PDF alternative, seems to be almost dead in the water.

That said, Windows 7 offers a built-in XPS printer and viewer. I believe Vista also offers a built-in printer.

XPS seems lighter than PDF, perhaps it only appears so because of Adobe's bloated reader, but that's for another discussion.

Is it worth it to begin encoding in XPS instead of PDF? Will Vista or above be able to read it without problems? What should I look out for?

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