Windows Desktop Client

Required and optional software to be obtained and installed before a Windows Desktop Client installation, and software automatically installed during installation.

RWS product

  • XPP 9.7

Machine

  • Desktop client machine running Microsoft Windows

Prerequisite software

It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the following software is obtained and installed on the system before installation.
Operating system
  • Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit
  • Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (deprecated)
Additional operating system package
  • Microsoft C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable Package (x64)

Optional software

It is the customer's responsibility to obtain and install any optional software on the system before the XPP installation.
X/Server

Open Text Exceed 14 or later (64-bit) is required on PC clients (Windows PCs accessing the Linux Application Server). The added Secure Shell package is required with Linux 8 (and later).

Java

XPP Compare, XPP XML Export, XPP EDGAR HTML, SVG graphic conversion, and XSLT 2.0 require one of the following versions (or later) of Java:

  • Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8.0_192 or later 1.8x release, 64-bit
  • Temurin OpenJDK with Hotspot JRE 17.0.7 or later 17.x release, 64‐bit
  • Oracle OpenJDK 17.0.7 or later 17.x release, 64-bit
PDF generator

XPP generates PDFs using Direct-to-PDF, and includes Ghostscript, which distills PostScript to generate PDFs. If you plan to use a different PostScript distiller to create PDFs (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Distiller), you need to purchase and install it before installing XPP.

Microsoft .NET (deprecated)

To use the XPP .NET API, Microsoft .NET 3.5 is required.

Third-party software

No third-party software is installed on the system as part of the XPP installation.