October 2007 - Posts

Some Attention
24 October 07 10:48 PM

"XPS hasn't got the attention it deserves. It's a great new portable document format of very high quality, with a free viewer available for Windows XP. If you want to create documents to give to others, and need to ensure they see exactly the document Read More...

Postedby adrian ford | 1 Comments    

XPS in Windows Vista
23 October 07 07:36 AM

Time for a post on one of the XPS features in Windows Vista which I use a lot - archiving to XPS rather than printing. There's lots of times where, in the past, I've had to print out stuff because I needed to, not because I wanted to. Common examples Read More...

Postedby adrian ford | 2 Comments    

Filed under: XPS, print, vista

Controlling compression options from a driver
13 October 07 01:33 AM

In a previous post I wrote about controlling compression for the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. Brian Mosher asked on the MSDN XPS Forum whether it's possible to programmatically control image compression from the context of an XPSDrv-based printer driver. Read More...

Postedby adrian ford | 3 Comments    

Filed under: XPS, print, drivers

More Konica Minolta MFPs With XPS
11 October 07 05:26 AM

Konica Minolta have announced three more MFPs (Multifunctional Product/Peripheral) with support for XPS via a native XPS interpreter. More details in the press release . Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, interop, print

Infragistics NetAdvantage
09 October 07 06:56 AM

Infragistics announced NetAdvantage for .Net 2007 Volume 3 ( Press Release ) which provides enterprise and line-of-business developers with enhanced support for building richer user interfaces and now includes reporting with support for XPS and PDF. Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, interop

Print Verifier
08 October 07 06:15 PM

"PrintVerifier is a runtime verification engine for monitoring interaction between third party components and the print subsystem" a translation of what that means is available ;-) along with more details on the team blog -> http://blogs.msdn.com/printverifier Read More...

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Filed under: print

MXDW and Image Content
02 October 07 08:01 AM

A question was asked recently on an internal list about why the image content in XPS files generated by MXDW (that's the Microsoft XPS Document Writer) can differ — sometimes images are stored as JPEGs and other times as PNGs (and, although not asked Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, print, drivers