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prkims Author

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How to open xps files

Any tricks out there for Mac 10.7 users for opening an xps file from Windows 7?

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 6:26 PM

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sunt622

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Posted on Jul 27, 2012 9:52 PM

I found a suggestion on dogpile.com search that suggested opening the .XPS file in a google email account and opening it with "viewer" instead of downloading it. Once in viewer, click the print document icon in the upper window tool bar and it can be downloaded as a PDF file to your Mac at that point. It worked for me but I was only opening a 4 page file.

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jrtower

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Jun 11, 2014 8:25 PM in response to Klaus1

I am not a Mac guy, I have been using windows for a long time, but I recently bought a macbook pro for a extremley low price from family. Anyways, Graphic Converter had never been opened before. Anyways it opened with version 5.4.1 REV 2, it did open the .XPS file I needed. However, it was very small, I zoomed in 400% and the document was not readable. I have been trying some other things so I can read my EIN number off this .XPS Document. But I havent found any effects or changes that I can do to be able to read it. I am upgrading to the current version now, hopefully that will give me some new options. Just incase, does anyone have any Ideas? For the person That said you could not open .XPS documents, probaly downloaded a .XPS doc that had been compressed using WinZip. I found that after downoading a WinZip compressed file, the Macbook Pro 10.6.8 does not show any zip images or tell you this file is compressed without doing a little more investigation than using Windows. I gues thats why it's called WINzip. Even though they have a Macitosh version which is always getting better.