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July 2007 - Posts

HD Photo

HD Photo (previously WM Photo or Windows Media Photo) is one of the image formats supported within the XML Paper Specification (XPS). The HD Photo format provides excellent compression (lossless, lossy & visually lossless) with support for rich colors. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:19 PM by adrian ford | 1 Comments
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Nuance OMNIPage 16

TMCnet has a news item detailing Nuance's latest version of OmniPage Professional, their OCR and Document Conversion application. OmniPage now supports XPS, and provides conversion of scanned documents to searchable XPS, bridging the physical and electronic Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:22 PM by adrian ford | 0 Comments
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A TC46 Photo

Following on from my last post, here's a piccy of technical committee 46 (TC46) at the initial meeting in Cambridge last week (thanks to Patrick Llewelyn-Davies and Global Graphics for allowing me to use the photo). From left to right, back to front: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:21 AM by adrian ford | 0 Comments

TC46 in Cambridge

The initial meeting of Ecma TC46 , the technical committee working on standardization of the XML Paper Specification format, met at Queens' College Cambridge for its initial meeting on Monday. I was there (to represent Microsoft), as were 23 other people Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:05 PM by adrian ford | 1 Comments
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XPS viewing in three lines

I was involved in a conversation this week where someone mentioned "it's just 2 lines of code", So I thought I'd go one line better and provide an example of how to leverage WPF and Visual Studio to do an XPS Viewer in 3 lines of code. To get yourself Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 14, 2007 5:38 AM by adrian ford | 1 Comments
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RAS Syndrome

I've just added a link to ' XPS Specification ' together with some other resources in the sidebar. Of course, 'XPS Specification' expands to 'XML Paper Specification Specification', hence RAS Syndrome . Possible alternatives include ' XPS format ' (but Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 08, 2007 2:47 AM by adrian ford | 0 Comments
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Independence & Implementations

Somebody pointed me to a number of news stories that ran over the weekend that assume that XPS is a Microsoft-only thing. Here’s a quote from some coverage (this one happens to be in InfoWorld ): “Currently, Microsoft has the only implementation of XPS” Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:36 PM by adrian ford | 0 Comments
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Minor Milestone - XPS goes to Ecma

I’ve been working with XPS for a long time – I started back in 200N (where N is an integer quite a lot less than 5 ;-), way before I came to work for Microsoft – and today (or rather last Thursday) marks a minor milestone in the evolution of the format. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 03, 2007 7:03 PM by adrian ford | 3 Comments
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