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Last updated on
Sep. 30, 2022
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Also applies to Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat 2020
With December 2018 release of Acrobat, converting XPS files to PDFs is disabled. If you try to convert an XPS file to PDF using Acrobat, you see a message saying that it’s an unsupported file type.
Impacted versions
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Acrobat |
19.010.20064 |
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Acrobat 2017 |
17.011.30110 |
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Acrobat 2015 Classic |
15.006.30461 |
If you still want to enable the ability to convert XPS files to PDFs, create a registry key (Windows) as mentioned below.
Solution: Create a feature-specific registry key on Windows
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Quit Acrobat application if it's already running.
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Open the registry editor - go to Run (Windows menu + R), type regedit.exe in the Open field and click OK.
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In the registry editor, based on your installed version of the product, go the version-specific location listed below, and create the key FeatureState at the location; the key may not be present by default.
For Acrobat (Continuous):
- Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\(Wow6432Node)\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureState
For Acrobat (Classic - Acrobat 2017):
- Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\(Wow6432Node)\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2017\FeatureState
For Acrobat (Classic - Acrobat 2015):
- Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\(Wow6432Node)\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2015\FeatureState
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Under FeatureState, create a key of type DWORD and name it BlockXPSParsing. Change its value to 0 (zero).
NoteWhen the value of BlockXPSParsing is:
- 0: Conversion of XPS to PDF is enabled in Acrobat
- 1: Conversion of XPS to PDF is disabled in Acrobat
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Close the registry editor.
