XPS Annotator is document management software for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 that allows users to view, annotate, convert, sign and print XPS documents. Software was first released in 12 March 2009 (version 1.0). It is created by Danang Probo Sayekti of Indonesia

Indonesia

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, Magelang

Magelang

Magelang is one of the largest cities of the 1,130 km² Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. It is also the largest town in the Kedu Plain between Mount Merbabu and Mount Sumbing in Central Java, Indonesia...

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Features

In earlier versions, the installer using the Windows Installer

Windows Installer

The Windows Installer is a software component used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software on modern Microsoft Windows systems...

, and from version 1.20 until the present version (version 1.22) using Inno Setup

Inno Setup

Inno Setup is a free script-driven installation system created in CodeGear Delphi by Jordan Russell. The first version was released in 1997.- History :...

 to create the installer. The .exe files

EXE

EXE is the common filename extension denoting an executable file in the DOS, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows, Symbian, and OS/2 operating systems....

 generated by the Inno Setup is compressed into ZIP format

ZIP (file format)

Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is...

, there are two kinds of files contained in the zip file, which is readme.html and the installer files in the form of .exe files.

Annotating XPSs

XPS Annotator has the ability to add annotations to the Open XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents. Like PDF document, the XPS document also supports the annotation feature. However, annotations features found on the XPS document is still limited. The XPS annotations itself 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.

• Highlight annotations: allows user to highlighting lines of text or paragraphs.
• Text annotations and ink annotations: user can adding text notes or ink notes.

Signing XPSs

XPS Annotator also support digital signatures. User can digitally signed or encrypted the XPS document for security or authentication

Authentication

Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity...

, and the supported security certificate is X.509

X.509

In cryptography, X.509 is an ITU-T standard for a public key infrastructure and Privilege Management Infrastructure . X.509 specifies, amongst other things, standard formats for public key certificates, certificate revocation lists, attribute certificates, and a certification path validation...

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Converting XPSs

The existence of the converter to convert XPS documents to image files. XPS Annotator currently supports conversion of XPS documents into several popular image formats including PNG, JPEG

JPEG

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, BMP, GIF and TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems...

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Other features

• Ability to print the annotations.
• Can adding document properties.
• Hyperlink
  Hyperlink
  In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks...
  
   support.
• Support general operations such as print, save, zoom, text search, copy and paste.

Critical reception

• CNET
  CNET
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   editors gives the XPS Annotator rating with four and a half stars and recommend to anyone who handles XPS documents.

See also

• Annotations
• Comparison of XPS and PDF
  Comparison of OpenXPS and PDF
  This is a comparison of the OpenXPS document file format with the PDF file format. Both file format standards are essentially containers for representing digital content in a paper-like fashion.-Design aims:...
  
  
• Electronic document
  Electronic document
  An electronic document is any electronic media content that are intended to be used in either an electronic form or as printed output....
  
  
• XML Paper Specification
  XML Paper Specification
  Open XML Paper Specification , is an open specification for a page description language and a fixed-document format originally developed by Microsoft as XML Paper Specification that was later standardized by Ecma International as international standard ECMA-388...