XPS file sizes??

Hi all... i was curious to try out the XPS stuff, for document storage;

but i was shocked to see the file sizes!! It seems that every document i
have tried, the same XPS of a document is anywhere from 3 - 5 times the size
of a PDF of the same document. I expected maybe a few KB difference, but
HUNDREDS of KB difference is wild!! and thats on a small 3 page document. I
wouldnt want to see the difference on a document of any significant size.

Is there any hope these will become comparable to PDF anytime soon?

Cheers all,
- Arthur Dent.

On Mon, 14 May 2007 00:40:08 -0400, "Arthur Dent"
<hitchhikersguideto-news@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi all... i was curious to try out the XPS stuff, for document storage;
>
>but i was shocked to see the file sizes!! It seems that every document i
>have tried, the same XPS of a document is anywhere from 3 - 5 times the size
>of a PDF of the same document. I expected maybe a few KB difference, but
>HUNDREDS of KB difference is wild!! and thats on a small 3 page document. I
>wouldnt want to see the difference on a document of any significant size.
>
>Is there any hope these will become comparable to PDF anytime soon?
>
>Cheers all,
>- Arthur Dent.


I just tried it with a 150 page text document. Using Nitro PDF to
create a PDF it was about 500K. As an XPS it was 1.3 megs.