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Viewing XPS files
My environment: Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Office 2007.
I've installed the Save as PDF or XPS add-in in Office. This allows me to save a file in Word in XPS format just fine. If I select "Open file after publishing", I get bounced into the XPS viewer without a problem. However, if I attempt to open an existing XPS file directly with Word, I get an error message concerning problems with the file contents. Should I be redireded to the viewer or is this currently expected behavior? A couple of other related questions: * The add-in does not appear on the list of Office add-ins in Word Options. Is this a problem with this add-in or some Word bug? * When I first installed the add-in and saved and then requested a preview of the file, I was asked to allow installation of the .NET framework, which I did. I thought this framework was already a part of Windows Vista. Am I mistaken? -- Todd |
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Viewing XPS files
Hi Todd
ToddLC wrote: My environment: Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Office 2007. I've installed the Save as PDF or XPS add-in in Office. This allows me to save a file in Word in XPS format just fine. If I select "Open file after publishing", I get bounced into the XPS viewer without a problem. However, if I attempt to open an existing XPS file directly with Word, I get an error message concerning problems with the file contents. Should I be redireded to the viewer or is this currently expected behavior? It's not a Word file after all, not anymore. If you save as a PCL or PS file (by printing to file through a different printer driver), you would not expect Word being able to open the result, either. IOW, it doesn't come as a surprise that Word chocks if you instruct it to open the file. Telling Windows (through an explorer, not sure how this thing is called under Vista :-)) to open it should be fine, and _then_ I would not expect Word to be in the loop at all. This should send the file directly to the appropriate viewer, if it's correctly registered with the OS. 2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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