XPS / OpenXPS to JPEG converter

XPS → JPG is for the upload box that takes JPEG and nothing else: each page of the XPS becomes a JPEG, flattened onto white.

Converted with Image engine · input deleted within 24 h
Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
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From real runs

What you get — and what changes

Element	Result	What happens
Page images	Kept	Three pages gave three JPEGs named -page-1 to -page-3 in one ZIP, in page order; a one-page XPS gave a single JPEG.
File size	Changed	JPEG is not always smaller for documents. The text-only Go record was 854,707 bytes as JPEGs against 838,390 as PNGs, while the Word page with a photo dropped from 45,428 to 32,895 bytes.
Small type	Changed	At quality 90 faint grey speckles appear around digits and table rules when you zoom in; at normal size the pages read cleanly.
Pixel dimensions	Kept	JPEG pages have the same pixel sizes as the PNG route: 1190 × 1683 for an XPS A4 page and 1440 × 1080 for a slide at 144 DPI.
Transparency	Lost	JPEG has no alpha channel, so transparent areas of the page are filled with white unless you set another background colour.
Selectable text and links	Lost	Like any image, the JPEG keeps neither the text layer nor the web links that the XPS had.

Page images Kept
Three pages gave three JPEGs named -page-1 to -page-3 in one ZIP, in page order; a one-page XPS gave a single JPEG.
File size Changed
JPEG is not always smaller for documents. The text-only Go record was 854,707 bytes as JPEGs against 838,390 as PNGs, while the Word page with a photo dropped from 45,428 to 32,895 bytes.
Small type Changed
At quality 90 faint grey speckles appear around digits and table rules when you zoom in; at normal size the pages read cleanly.
Pixel dimensions Kept
JPEG pages have the same pixel sizes as the PNG route: 1190 × 1683 for an XPS A4 page and 1440 × 1080 for a slide at 144 DPI.
Transparency Lost
JPEG has no alpha channel, so transparent areas of the page are filled with white unless you set another background colour.
Selectable text and links Lost
Like any image, the JPEG keeps neither the text layer nor the web links that the XPS had.

Sample conversions

Three-page Go record as JPEGs

Input: 76,412-byte .xps printed through Microsoft XPS Document Writer, three A4 pages of tables.
Output: 854,707-byte ZIP with three 1190 × 1683 JPEGs in 0.7 s, four times faster than the PNG route but slightly larger.

PowerPoint deck saved as XPS

Input: 75,442-byte XPS of three text slides.
Output: 124,352-byte ZIP of three 1440 × 1080 JPEGs in 0.17 s; the PNG ZIP of the same slides was 87,529 bytes.

OpenXPS text page

Input: 51,175-byte .oxps with one A4 page of monospaced text.
Output: One 47,735-byte JPEG in 0.08 s, no ZIP.

A real XPS / OpenXPS → JPEG run

We converted our XPS / OpenXPS sample (74 KB) with Image engine on 2026-10-20. It took 180 ms and produced a 121 KB JPEG file, 1.6× larger than the input. The engine raised 2 warnings, listed below.

Input · sample.xps · 74 KB

ZIP with 18 parts

Archive parts: 18
first: [Content_Types].xml

Output · sample.zip · 121 KB

ZIP with 3 page images (sample-page-1.jpg … sample-page-3.jpg)

Archive parts: 3
first: sample-page-1.jpg

PDF pages rendered as images; selectable text is not preserved.
3 pages written as one JPG each inside a ZIP.

Options and when to change them

quality: Lower to 75 when an upload form has a size cap; raise to 95 if small print looks fuzzy.
dpi: Use 300 when the JPEG will be printed; keep 144 for forms and email.
max_pages: Use 1 when a form wants a single image of the first page.
background: Change it only if the page has transparent areas and white is the wrong fill colour.

Do it yourself

MuPDF and pdftoppm

bash

mutool convert -o tmp.pdf document.xps && pdftoppm -jpeg -jpegopt quality=90 -r 144 tmp.pdf page

Go through PDF: with mutool 1.21, mutool draw -o page-%d.jpg still wrote PNG data under a .jpg name.

XPS / OpenXPS to JPEG by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Image engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=xps&to=jpg.

curl

curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.xps" -F "from=xps" -F "to=jpg" \
  -F 'options={"width":0}' \
  --output output.jpg

Options this engine accepts for XPS / OpenXPS → JPEG

Key	Applies to	Type	Default
width	Writing JPEG	number	0
height	Writing JPEG	number	0
fit	Writing JPEG	contain · cover · fill	contain
quality	Writing JPEG	number	90
background	Writing JPEG	string	#ffffff
stripMetadata	Writing JPEG	boolean	true

API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

If the pages are mostly text and tables, XPS → PNG gives crisper edges at a similar size.
If someone needs to search or copy the content, XPS → PDF keeps the text layer.

XPS / OpenXPS to JPEG questions

Why is my JPG bigger than the PNG of the same XPS page?

JPEG is designed for photographs. Black text on white produces sharp edges that JPEG spends many bytes describing, so text-only XPS pages often come out larger as JPEG than as PNG.

The form only accepts one file but my XPS has several pages. What do I upload?

Set max_pages to 1 for the first page, or open the ZIP and pick the page the form needs. Each JPEG is named after its page number.

Can I make the JPEGs smaller for an email?

Lower quality to 75 or set width to the size you need, for example 1000 pixels; both reduce the file without changing the page layout.