Convert .oxps file to .pdf file on Windows 8

You can try to use online services such as: http://online2pdf.com/oxps-to-pdf

You can also try installing a PDF printer on your PC, opening up the .oxps file and then "printing" to PDF.

PDF printer: CutePDF

This can be done using GhostXPS (9.19 and above):

gxpswin64-9.19.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=pdffile.pdf -dNOPAUSE oxpsfile.oxps

Change the name of the GhostXPS executable as appropriate.

Batch file for easy conversion

@echo off

C:\path\to\ghostxps.exe  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%1.pdf -dNOPAUSE %1

Save as oxps2pdf.bat or similar.

Usage: oxps2pdf INPUTFILE

Adding OXPS to PDF conversion to the context (right-click) menu

1. Start the Registry Editor: run: regedit.exe
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\
3. locate .oxps\ key , if it doesnt exist, create it (right click --> New --> Key)
4. locate shell\ subkey, if it doesn't exist, create it
5. create pdfconvert\ subkey (name doesn't really matter)
6. double click on the (Default) REG_SZ String to give the menu a name, i.e. Convert to PDF

7. create 'command` subkey
8. Define (Default) String to "C:\path\to\gxpswin64.exe" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%1.pdf -dNOPAUSE %1

9. Repeat the steps for .xps if you wish

Now you can see the new added context menu item Convert To PDF

Adding OXPS to PDF conversion to the right-click menu (Send to)

As an alternative you can setup the Send To menu instead. This works, but is suboptimal.

1. Navigate to your SendTo folder (Win-R to show Run dialog; enter shell:sendto).

2. Inside the SendTo folder, create a shortcut to the oxps2pdf.bat batch file found above.

3. Rename the newly created shortcut "Convert OXPS to PDF".

Now, when you right-click on a file, the Send To menu should contain "Convert OXPS to PDF".