Printing files to the XPS format

When printing files directly from Windows 8, you have the ability to print to a…read-only format known as XPS.…It's the read-only format invented by Microsoft.…So if you want to share documents and instead of printing them on paper, be able…to send them in a read-only format, you can print directly to this format.…Here's how we do it.…Let's go to the Desktop tile on our Start screen.…Now we'll go to the Exercise Files if you have them or you can experiment with…any of your own files.…I'm going to double-click that folder to open it up in File Explorer.…

I'm going to take one of my images here which could be edited in image editing…software unless I change it to a read-only format like XPS.…Let's go to Gallery2 and when you select it, you'll see a preview over here on…the right with some detailed information below.…If you still have the Details View selected from the View tab above.…Now let's pretend we're about to print this, but we don't want a paper copy.…We want a read-only copy.…But we do go to the Share tab like we would anyway, click Print, and this time…