Comparison of OpenXPS and PDF
This is a comparison of the OpenXPS document file format with the PDF file format.
Design aims
The differences between Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS) and the Portable Document Format (PDF) can be traced to their heritage and the manner of their development, as they have different design goals and different groups providing input.
The different goals in the development of OpenXPS and PDF resulted in different principles and design tradeoffs between the file formats.
Comparison
| File format | OpenXPS | |
|---|---|---|
| Based on a format developed by |
Microsoft | Adobe Systems |
| Standardized by | Ecma International | ISO |
| First public release date | 2006 | 1993 |
| First stable version | XPS 1.0 | PDF 1.0 |
| Latest stable version | Ecma International Standard ECMA-388 — Open XML Paper Specification — 1st Edition | ISO 32000-1:2008 — Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7 |
| Latest standardised version | Ecma International Standard ECMA-388 — Open XML Paper Specification — 1st Edition | ISO 32000-1:2008 — Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7 |
| Language type | Markup language (XML) | Subset of PostScript page description programming language |
| XML schema representation | XML Schema (W3C) (XSD) and RELAX NG (ISO/IEC 19757-2) | N/A |
| Compression format | ZIP | |
| Container structure | Open Packaging Conventions (ISO/IEC 29500-2:2008) | |
| Full file content compression | Yes | Compression at page level only |
| Multiple documents in one file | Yes | No |
| Document bookmarks and outline | Yes | Yes |
| Hyperlinks | Yes | Yes |
| Page thumbnails | Yes | Yes |
| Image transparencies | Yes | Yes |
| Alpha channel in color definitions | Yes | No |
| Change tracking | No | No |
| Password protection | Yes | Yes |
| Digital signatures | Yes | Yes |
| RGB support | Yes | Yes |
| CMYK support | Yes | Yes |
| Filename extensions | oxps | |
| Internet media types | application/oxps | application/pdf |
| Standard licensing |
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| File format | OpenXPS |
References
See also
External links
- ECMA-388 Open XML Paper Specification
- ISO 32000-1:2008 Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7
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