Developer(s) Danang Probo Sayekti | Initial release 12 March 2009 | |
Stable release 1.22 / 23 February 2010; 7 years ago (2010-02-23) Written in C# (Microsoft Visual Studio Express) and XAML Operating system Platform Microsoft Windows / .NET Framework | ||
XPS Annotator is a document management software program for Microsoft Windows that allows users to view, annotate, convert, sign and print XPS documents. The software was first released on 12 March 2009 (version 1.0). It was created by Danang Probo Sayekti of Magelang, Indonesia.
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Installation
Before version 1.2, the XPS annotator was installed using the Windows Installer, and from version 1.20 until the present version (version 1.22) it is installed using Inno Setup. The .exe files generated by the Inno Setup are compressed into ZIP format. There are two kinds of files contained in the zip file, the readme.html and the installer files in the form of .exe files.
Annotating XPSs
Like PDF documents, Open XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents support the annotation feature, however, the annotations features in XPS documents are still limited. XPS Annotator has the ability to add annotations to these XPS documents. These annotations can include many types of content such as typed text, handwritten notes, or Web links.
There are three options users can add: highlight annotations, text annotations and ink annotations.
Signing XPSs
XPS Annotator also support digital signatures. User can digitally sign or encrypt the XPS document for security or authentication, and the supported security certificate is X.509.
Converting XPSs
XPS Annotator the capability to convert XPS documents to image files. XPS Annotator currently supports conversion of XPS documents into several popular image formats including PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIFF.