Open and read an XPS or OXPS document without Windows
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Drop the .xps or .oxps in and page through it here. Microsoft removed the XPS Viewer from Windows in 2018, so the format Windows invented is now one Windows usually will not open. The package is read in this browser tab — nothing is uploaded — and you can download a PDF copy from the same page.
Open a .xps or .oxps package and read it page by page. Microsoft removed the XPS Viewer from Windows by default in 2018 and shipped no replacement, so a format Windows itself invented is now one Windows will usually not open — which is how most people arrive here. The package is read in the browser: its fixed pages, vector paths, transforms, clipping, opacity and embedded images are rendered so you can page through the document, and a PDF copy is one click away. Embedded fonts are mapped onto the standard PDF typefaces rather than carried over, so text is positioned as the package specifies but not drawn in the original face — the viewer says so explicitly whenever that has happened.
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Microsoft created XPS in 2006 as a fixed-layout rival to PDF and shipped a viewer with Windows for over a decade. From the April 2018 update the XPS Viewer was no longer installed by default, and on a clean Windows 11 machine it is an optional feature you have to go and add. Nothing replaced it. So the files persist — they are still produced by the Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer that Windows still installs — while the ability to read them quietly went away.
OXPS is the standardised version, published as OpenXPS in 2009, and it became the default output on Windows 8 and later. The two are close relatives with different XML namespaces and slightly different packaging, which is why an older XPS viewer often refuses an .oxps outright. Both are accepted here and read with the same engine; the file extension picks which namespace to expect.
The layout is, and the fonts usually are not. XPS is a fixed-layout format, so vector paths, transforms, clipping, opacity and embedded images are placed at the coordinates the package specifies rather than reflowed. Embedded font programs, however, are mapped onto the standard PDF typefaces instead of being used directly, so text sits in the right place at the right width but is not drawn in the original face. Whenever that or anything else has been substituted, the viewer says so above the page rather than leaving you to notice.
It depends on what you are about to do. If you only need to read the document once — which is the common case for a file you were emailed — opening it is faster and leaves nothing on your disk. If you need to keep it, forward it, or print it, convert it: the button on this page produces a PDF using the same engine, so the pages you just read are the pages you get. Both run in the browser, so neither sends the document anywhere.
No. The package is unzipped, parsed and rendered by code running in this tab, and the page images are held in your browser’s memory. That matters because of what tends to be in an XPS: the format is produced by the Microsoft XPS Document Writer, so the files people cannot open are usually printed output — invoices, statements, records — rather than anything casual.
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Files are processed in your browser and never uploaded
The package is unzipped and rendered by this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, which matters for XPS in particular: the format is what the Microsoft XPS Document Writer produces, so these files are usually printed records.