Free online XPS to TIFF converter

A scanner, OCR system, publishing application, or archival repository may accept TIFF but not XPS. Converting the pages produces raster images that can be opened by image-based software and devices without XPS support.

What the XPS format is

XPS, or XML Paper Specification, is Microsoft's fixed-layout document format. An XPS package contains page descriptions, text, fonts, vector graphics, images, and related resources so pages render consistently instead of reflowing like word-processing documents.

Typical sources include Microsoft XPS Document Writer, Windows applications with an XPS export option, and .NET or WPF applications that generate reports. XPS Viewer can open these files, although it is absent or optional on some newer Windows installations. XPS is less widely supported than PDF, TIFF, and common office formats.

What the TIFF format is

TIFF is a raster image format used by scanners, print-production systems, OCR software, geographic-imaging applications, and document archives. It supports grayscale, RGB, high bit depths, metadata, and multipage documents in a single file, although individual applications may support only some of these features.

For ordinary document pages, 300 dpi is a practical starting point. Use 400 or 600 dpi for small text, detailed line art, or demanding OCR. LZW and ZIP compression preserve raster data; JPEG compression makes smaller TIFF files but can add artifacts around text and fine lines.

Convert with 101convert.com

1. Open the XPS-to-TIFF converter on 101convert.com.
2. Upload the .xps file.
3. Select TIFF as the output format and start the conversion.
4. Download the resulting .tif or .tiff file.

The built-in converter is available for free and requires no software installation. Do not upload confidential, regulated, or restricted documents unless the service's current privacy and retention terms satisfy your requirements.

Convert locally on Windows

1. Open the XPS file in XPS Viewer.
2. Choose File → Print, select Microsoft Print to PDF, and save the intermediate file as document.pdf.
3. Install a local PDF rasterizer such as ImageMagick with PDF support, or Poppler.
4. For ImageMagick, render the pages to a multipage TIFF with magick -density 300 document.pdf -compress LZW document.tiff.

If ImageMagick refuses to read PDF files because of its security policy or missing PDF delegate, use Poppler's pdftoppm -r 300 -tiff document.pdf page. This creates one TIFF per page, such as page-1.tif. Combine the pages with a TIFF utility only if the receiving application requires one multipage file.

The PDF intermediate step usually preserves the printed appearance, but the virtual printer can alter page dimensions or margins. In the print dialog, choose Actual size or 100% scale rather than a fit-to-page option when exact dimensions matter.

Quality and compatibility limits

Conversion rasterizes each XPS page. The TIFF does not retain selectable XPS text, vector objects, embedded fonts, hyperlinks, or document structure; run OCR afterward if searchable text is required. Review at least the first and last pages, and check pages containing transparency, uncommon fonts, clipping paths, or rotated content.

Choose the target resolution before rendering because enlarging a low-resolution TIFF cannot restore lost detail. Use grayscale for black-and-white pages, RGB for color pages, and LZW or ZIP for lossless archival output. Multipage TIFF support varies: some image editors display only the first page, while scanning and document-management systems commonly support the complete page sequence.

An .oxps file is the OpenXPS variant and is not interchangeable with every .xps tool. If XPS Viewer or the selected converter rejects the file, identify whether the source is OXPS and use software that explicitly supports that variant.