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1139484 2010-09-25 00:17:00 Hi All.

Was having a nosy in Control Panel, My Printers, & saw these :-

MS Office Document Image Printer

&

MS XPS Document writer.

What are they & what do they do? Thanks. PJ
Poppa John (284)
1139485 2010-09-25 01:16:00 Probably part of Office, just leave them there Speedy Gonzales (78)
1139486 2010-09-25 05:53:00 MS XPS afaik is maybe a update of Windows could be ... I know that W7 without installing office installs XPS, it's like MS's own version of PDF but they don't formats between each other. Nomad (952)
1139487 2010-09-25 06:16:00 They print to a file rather than a physical printer.

They do no harm so leave them there.

They are not part of Office. I know this as I've spent most of the day Installing Vista on a new hard drive and I have not yet got arount putting Office on it yet. Had enought to do downloading 102 updates plus SP 1 and 2. Next job is to make a new Vista DVD with all updates slipstreamed in. :)
Snorkbox (15764)
1139488 2010-09-25 20:22:00 MS XPS Document writer is Microsofts version of PDF files. The vista version was a bit flaky but the one in W7 is fine. I didn't think it was implemented in XP.
It is very useful for developers designing printed reports as you can see what the result will be without using a lot of paper.
Anything you would normally print can be sent to an XPS file and stored on your disk for future reference. To view the output you need a program called XPS viewer that comes with Windows.
mcginty (10610)
1139489 2010-09-25 22:21:00 Thanks mcginty, useful to know. zqwerty (97)
1139490 2010-09-25 22:47:00 OK Thanks All PJ Poppa John (284)
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