7. Printable File Types

Table of Contents

• 7.1. Standard File Types

  • 7.1.1. XPS to PDF Installation Instructions

• 7.2. Advanced File Types

• 7.3. PDF Font Substitution

7.1. Standard File Types

SavaPage printer supports a number of common file types out of the box as summarized in the table below.

Important

Non-embedded fonts in original or produced PDF documents are subject to Font Substitution.

Standard Printable File Types

Extension	Type
pdf	Portable Document Format The PDF must not be password protected and not have dynamic XFA [1] form content. To accept encrypted PDF the Allow Encrypted PDF for Proxy Printing option must explicitly be enabled. Non-embedded fonts are subject to PDF Font Substitution.
ps	PostScript DRM protected PostScript is rendered for ProxyPrinting only. See Printing Encrypted PDF.
oxps xps	Open XML Paper Specification See XPS to PDF Installation Instructions.
html htm	Hypertext Markup Language
txt	Text File
bmp	Bitmap
gif	Graphic Interchange Format For Animated GIF each image is rendered separately.
heif heic	High Efficiency Image File Format heif-convert is needed for this file type.
jpg jpeg jpe	JPEG/JIFF Image
png	Portable (Public) Network Graphic
md	Markdown
svg	Scalable Vector Graphics rsvg-convert is needed for this file type.
tiff tif	Tagged Image Format File Multi-page tiff is supported.
eml	Electronic Mail Format EML is a file extension for an email message saved to a file in the Internet Message Format protocol for electronic mail messages. EML files comply with industry standard RFC 5322 and can be exported from most email clients.

Note

The default paper size is used as the paper size for the printed document of a Printable File Type which itself does not have a document structure with a clearly defined page size. These types typically include HTML, TXT and images.

[1]

XML Forms Architecture (XFA) is a proprietary format for forms introduced by Adobe in PDF 1.5 that is not compatible with ISO 32000’s AcroForms feature. Most PDF processors do not handle XFA content. The XFA specification is referenced from ISO 32000-1 / PDF 1.7 as an external proprietary specification, and was entirely deprecated from PDF with ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0). Dynamic PDF-XFA can change its layout and appearance based on the data entered by the user. Static forms have a fixed layout.

7.1.1. XPS to PDF Installation Instructions

Open XML Paper Specification (XPS) is an XML based electronic paper format originally developed by Microsoft to serve as a PDF alternative. XPS files are usually created using “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” in a Windows environment.

SavaPage uses the xpstopdf command from the libgxps [2] package to convert XPS documents to PDF format. Check if this package is installed by entering the command:

xpstopdf --help

On Debian based systems you can install the package with the command:

sudo apt install libgxps-utils

Note

Before XPS to PDF can be used it must be enabled. See Options > Advanced > Converters.

[2]

libgxps is a library for handling and rendering XPS documents.