C# API to Render XPS to XLT

Export XPS File to XLT via C# without using Microsoft^® Excel or Adobe^® Acrobat Reader

Using Aspose.Total for .NET you can easily convert XPS file to XLT within any .NET, C#, ASP.NET and VB.NET applications. Firstly, by using Aspose.PDF for .NET , you can export XPS to XLSX. After that, by using Aspose.Cells for .NET Spreadsheet Programming API, you can convert XLSX to XLT.

.NET API to Convert XPS to XLT

Open XPS file using Document class
Convert XPS to XLSX by using Save method
Load XLSX document by using Workbook class
Save the document to XLT format using Save method and set Xlt as SaveFormat

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Convert Protected XPS to XLT via C#

If your XPS document is password protected, you cannot convert it to XLT without the password. Using the API, you can first open the protected document using a valid password and convert it after it. In order to open the encrypted file, you can initialize a new instance of the Document class and pass the filename and password as arguments.

Convert XPS File to XLT with Watermark via C#

While converting XPS file to XLT, you can also add watermark to your output XLT file format. In order to add a watermark, you can create a new Workbook object and open the converted XLSX document, select Worksheet via its index, create a Shape and use its AddTextEffect function. After that you can save your XLSX document as XLT with Watermark.

Other Conversion Options

XPS TO XLSB (Excel Binary Workbook)

XPS TO ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet)

XPS TO XLTM (Excel Macro-Enabled Template)

XPS TO XLTX (Excel Template)

XPS TO SXC (StarOffice Calc Spreadsheet)

XPS TO DIF (Data Interchange Format)

XPS TO CSV (Comma Seperated Values)

XPS TO FODS (OpenDocument Flat XML Spreadsheet)

XPS TO XLAM (Excel Macro-Enabled Add-In)

XPS TO XLSM (Macro-enabled Spreadsheet)

XPS TO MD (Markdown Language)

XPS TO EXCEL

XPS What is XPS File Format?

An XPS file represents page layout files that are based on XML Paper Specifications created by Microsoft. It was developed as a replacement of EMF file format and is similar to PDF file format, but uses XML in layout, appearance, and printing information of a document. It is, in fact, more justified to say that XPS is an attempt on PDF, but couldn’t get enough popularity as owned by PDF for many reasons. Microsoft provides XPS Document Writer by default from Windows 7 onwards for the creation of XPS files. XPS files can be generated by selecting the Microsoft XPS Document Writer as printer while printing the document.

XLT What is XLT File Format?

Files with .xlt extension are template files created with Microsoft Excel which is a spreadsheet application which comes as part of Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Office 97-2003 supported creating new XLT files as well as opening these. The latest version of Excel is still capable of opening this old format template files. Such a template file is used to quickly create new Excel files with default data and settings such as page formatting, font size, margins, charts, etc which can be further saved as new .xls files.