July 2007 - Posts

HD Photo
31 July 07 11:19 PM

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...

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Filed under: XPS, interop

Nuance OMNIPage 16
31 July 07 08:22 PM

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...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround

A TC46 Photo
31 July 07 07:21 AM

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...

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TC46 in Cambridge
26 July 07 05:05 PM

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...

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Filed under: XPS, interop, TC46

XPS viewing in three lines
14 July 07 05:38 AM

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...

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Filed under: XPS, .Net, WPF

RAS Syndrome
08 July 07 02:47 AM

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...

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Independence & Implementations
03 July 07 09:36 PM

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...

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Minor Milestone - XPS goes to Ecma
03 July 07 07:03 PM

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...

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