How can I use Ghostscript to convert XPS to PDF or XPS to DOC?

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Dhyanesh picture Dhyanesh · Oct 8, 2010 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

Which one is the best third party libary to convert XPS to PDF and XPS to DOC.

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Keith Hoffman picture Keith Hoffman · Nov 10, 2011

While gxps and ghostscript are a possible solution, the syntax of the accepted answer did not work for me.

I was able to use ghostscript and gxps using the following syntax:

C:\gxps-871.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=myfile.pdf -dNOPAUSE myfile.xps

One comment on tab path completion: gxps doesn't seem to understand some of the Windows 7 symbolic links like My Documents well. If you have trouble tab-completing to your path, consider a temp folder in c:.

Credit where credit is due: I got this syntax from this blog: http://minhtech.com/windows/convert-xps-to-pdf-without-printer-driver/

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