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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
Product |
Version |
---|---|
Acrobat DC |
19.010.20064 |
Acrobat 2017 |
17.011.30110 |
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.
Quit Acrobat application if it's already running.
Open the registry editor - go to Run (Windows menu + R), type regedit.exe in the Open field and click OK.
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 DC (Continuous):
For Acrobat DC (Classic - Acrobat 2017):
For Acrobat DC (Classic - Acrobat 2015):
Under FeatureState, create a key of type DWORD and name it BlockXPSParsing. Change its value to 0 (zero).
When the value of BlockXPSParsing is:
Close the registry editor.
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