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Fortune Mile
Fortune Mile
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March 10, 2016
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Acrobat Pro XI print PDF from .xps (Microsoft xps printed document)- FINAL PDF NO OCR -TEXT NOT SEARCHABLE??

  • March 10, 2016
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PLATFORM: Windows 10 desktop

Adobe Acrobat Pro XI

Problem: Convert Microsoft .xps documents to PDF documents that can utilize Adobe Acrobat Pro XI tools- unable to add comments, highlight, underline, or OCR (text searchable)----final PDF from XPS document?

Tried several ways of converting XPS to PDF: (1) Adobe PDF printer (2) Microsoft Print to PDF native in Windows 10 (3) Microsoft XPS Document Writer (4) Send to OneNote 16- no pdf is functional as a result of all these conversion options.

.XPS gives no option to save as Adobe PDF despite having Adobe Acrobat Pro XI installed on same platform.

Cannot print to full adobe acrobat functional file, &/or cannot save....!!!

Other discussions in Adobe and Microsoft Community -not to current updated environments, suggest saving XPS in MS One Note and then converting to PDF. But unable to convert 33 pages in MS One Note-Office 2016, together of one document with one key stroke and save all 33 pages as one pdf file. I am unable to save 33 pages of OneNote 2016 into one PDF file.

Please recommend a method to take a .XPS file and make it a fully functional pdf- not just view the document in pdf but use it in ADOBE ACROBAT PRO XI.

I have tried all routes suggested on various sites and spent several hours myself looking for answers but have been unsuccessful in identifying a workable efficient one click, or few clicks option. The problem is that some native windows computers only have xps printers and then the document cannot be converted to pdf to utilize it in Adobe. Wonder if Adobe XI can be saved on a thumb drive and used to print documents into adobe pdfs from the thumb drive application of computers without PDF?- just a thought (?).

There are many search results in Google and Bing (for a xps to pdf) from other 3rd party vendors but its difficult/challenging to confirm if one can get a fully functional Adobe pdf document that can be used in Adobe Acrobat Pro. If Adobe Acrobat XI cannot do so, I wonder if the other 3rd party apps can- doubtful in my consideration-open to suggestions.

Thus, I did not try to download other 3rd party apps to consider doing same.

Please help.

Thank you!

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Ashwin Nanda

Apparently you aren't aware that you can easily create a PDF file from an XPS file by simply opening the XPS file in Acrobat or the Create PDF from file function. The XPS file is converted into a fully functional PDF file. This works not only in the current version of Acrobat, but in the last several versions as well.

And as Aandi Inston has indicated, no, you cannot share a copy of Acrobat on a thumb drive.

          - DOv

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jiml16296090
Participant
March 17, 2016

Is there an Adobe product that will convert XPS to PDF ....AND RETAIN BOOKMARKS?

I have Acrobat Pro 8. It converts XPS to PDF but does not retain the bookmarks (too many to add manually).

Thanks in advance.

Fortune Mile
Fortune MileAuthor
Participant
March 11, 2016

Thank you.

Appreciate the clarification.

I was printing to pdf.

I possibly overlooked the .xps file selection option in creating a pdf file. Your direction of creating pdf was helpful. It worked.

Previously I was getting an error in creating a pdf too......it was for some reason was not recognizing the .xps file.

The resultant pdf file was fully functional-thank you!

A relief!!!

Follow up question: Is there a way to select a number/bunch of xps files and create them all in one pdf file?

Anyway to take several .xps FILES and convert them to pdf.

Thank you!

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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March 11, 2016

Ashwin Nanda wrote:

…  Follow up question: Is there a way to select a number/bunch of xps files and create them all in one pdf file?

Anyway to take several .xps FILES and convert them to pdf. …

Yes, it is very easy to do, at least in Acrobat DC. I don't recall whether Acrobat 11 provides for this (it's been a year since I last used it)

In Acrobat DC, access File=>Create=>Combine Files into a Single PDF and from there either use the file dialog or drag the XPS files you wish to convert and then press Combine.

         - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
March 10, 2016

Ashwin Nanda

Apparently you aren't aware that you can easily create a PDF file from an XPS file by simply opening the XPS file in Acrobat or the Create PDF from file function. The XPS file is converted into a fully functional PDF file. This works not only in the current version of Acrobat, but in the last several versions as well.

And as Aandi Inston has indicated, no, you cannot share a copy of Acrobat on a thumb drive.

          - DOv

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Legend
March 10, 2016

‌Some answers, some questions. Acrobat absolutely cannot be shared on a thumb drive. OCR is not relevant to something printed to PDF unless it's image only. Why specifically do you feel you want to OCR? What fails? Commenting not affected by production process.

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