viewing XPS document

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I installed Vista RC1. Downlodaded the documentation
(Windows_Vista_Product_Guide_Beta_2.xps.zip). But I cannot view this document
on Vista by double clicking on this xps file. What setting is required in
VISTA to view this file?

Thanks.
Joe
 
I tried the link. It says Vista should be able to open the "xps" file by
default. But on my machine, the documentation xps file is not opening. I can
only see the structure in explorer.
 
Joseph C said:
I tried the link. It says Vista should be able to open the "xps" file by
default. But on my machine, the documentation xps file is not opening. I
can
only see the structure in explorer.
Click to expand...

Oh, you mean, you see XPS as a raw XML in IE? Yhat's interesting...

You could try one of the following:

1. Open XPS document directly with XPS Viewer. It's in
C:\Windows\System32\XPSViewer folder. You can run it from command line with
following syntax (one line):
C:\Windows\System32\XPSViewer\XPSViewer.exe
c:\Users\Username\Documents\My_Document.xps
Document should open inside Internet Explorer window. (God, why I want it so
much to have it's own UI as in XP version? I don't know...).

2. Try and fix file association for XPS documents:
- Select XPS document in Windows Explorer.
- Click Arrow near "Open" button on toolbar.
- Select "Choose Default Program..." option.
- Click browse button navigate to XPSViewer.exe in abovementioned path.

HTH
 
I'm assuming you are using Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater, which is required.

Try going to All Programs, Default Programs, Associate File Types, scroll
down to the XPS extension. The default program should be "XPS Document
Viewer" (at least it is on mine). If not, try changing it.

Good Luck.
 
I tried to open the xps document through command prompt. All it does is open
the explorer and I can only see the directory structure as follows:

_rels
docProps
Documents
Resources
[Content_Types]
FixedDocSeq.fdseq

I am supposed to see this in Internet Explorer. By default I have IE7 as
part of VISTA installation.

I checked the file association and it is correct.

Any setting in IE need to be changed?
 
Joseph C said:
I tried to open the xps document through command prompt. All it does is
open
the explorer and I can only see the directory structure as follows:

_rels
docProps
Documents
Resources
[Content_Types]
FixedDocSeq.fdseq

I am supposed to see this in Internet Explorer. By default I have IE7 as
part of VISTA installation.

I checked the file association and it is correct.

Any setting in IE need to be changed?
Click to expand...

Sorry, don't have much Ideas left. Can XPS document be damaged? Did you try
another one?

If you need a test XPS document, you can open "Microsoft XPS Document
Writer" printer properties and click "Print Test Page" button to make one.
Or just print something... anything to this virtual printer.
 
Excellent trouble shooting. The xps print test worked. The print test page
opened in IE7 browser. So I am going to download the documentation again. May
be it is corrupted. By the way, have you downloaded the VISTA documentation
and was able to open in IE7.

Alexander Suhovey said:
Joseph C said:
I tried to open the xps document through command prompt. All it does is
open
the explorer and I can only see the directory structure as follows:

_rels
docProps
Documents
Resources
[Content_Types]
FixedDocSeq.fdseq

I am supposed to see this in Internet Explorer. By default I have IE7 as
part of VISTA installation.

I checked the file association and it is correct.

Any setting in IE need to be changed?
Click to expand...

Sorry, don't have much Ideas left. Can XPS document be damaged? Did you try
another one?

If you need a test XPS document, you can open "Microsoft XPS Document
Writer" printer properties and click "Print Test Page" button to make one.
Or just print something... anything to this virtual printer.
Click to expand...
 
Joseph C said:
Excellent trouble shooting. The xps print test worked. The print test page
opened in IE7 browser. So I am going to download the documentation again.
May
be it is corrupted. By the way, have you downloaded the VISTA
documentation
and was able to open in IE7.
Click to expand...

Yes, though viewing it with XPSViewer hosted by IE7 in Vista was noticeably
slower than doing that using standalone XP version.
 
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