How can I use Ghostscript to convert XPS to PDF or XPS to DOC?

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Which one is the best third party libary to convert XPS to PDF and XPS to DOC.

In OS X you can run `brew install libgxps` and then run `xpstopdf input.xps output.pdf` to convert XPS to PDF. — nisetama, Jan 16 '16 at 23:34

score 27 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 10 '11 at 20:01

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While gxps and ghostscript are a possible solution, the syntax of the accepted answer did not work for me.

I was able to use ghostscript and gxps using the following syntax:

C:\gxps-871.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=myfile.pdf -dNOPAUSE myfile.xps

One comment on tab path completion: gxps doesn't seem to understand some of the Windows 7 symbolic links like My Documents well. If you have trouble tab-completing to your path, consider a temp folder in c:.

Credit where credit is due: I got this syntax from this blog: http://minhtech.com/windows/convert-xps-to-pdf-without-printer-driver/

answered Nov 10 '11 at 20:01

Keith Hoffman

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I agree, this is the correct answer so far (at least for what concerns XPS to PDF conversion) – danicotra Oct 16 '16 at 18:49
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Linking to [another possible syntax to do the same thing using GhostXPS](http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/18460/15456) – danicotra Oct 30 '16 at 19:31
I liked GhostScript, unfortuntately, its license is GPL, so in practice in many cases it cannot be used.. – Mohammed Noureldin Oct 29 '20 at 08:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '10 at 21:55

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XPS to PDF:
You can use GhostXPS (part of GhostPDL):

gxps.exe ^
 -o output.pdf ^
  c:/path/to/input.xps

answered Oct 09 '10 at 21:55

Kurt Pfeifle

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Not working in newer version of GhostXPS – dns Aug 12 '14 at 14:32

How can I use Ghostscript to convert XPS to PDF or XPS to DOC?

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