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February 2008 - Posts

Catching up

I was out for most of last week so here's a quick catch up on XPS-related stuff... "While PDF still is the de facto standard for document exchange in the graphic arts industry, we are increasingly getting customer demand to take a look at Microsoft's Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:59 PM by adrian ford | 0 Comments
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Autodesk: AutoCAD, DWFx and XPS

Yesterday, Autodesk announced the next release of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, as part of a family of products. Shaan Hurley has called out some of the highlights from AutoCAD 2009 Product Manager Doug Cochran, including support for XPS-based DWFx files and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:08 PM by adrian ford | 3 Comments

Enabling XPS in Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 provides support for XPS viewing, but it's not enabled by default — after all, only the stuff you need for a particular role should be enabled on a server, right?. Here's a step-by-step guide for how to turn on XPS... Step 1: Start Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:33 AM by adrian ford | 2 Comments
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Server Perf Team on XPS

CC Hameed on the server perf team (although, more properly, I think that should be the Enterprise Platforms Windows Server Performance Team) has a post on XPS as part of a series of interesting stuff on Windows Server 2008. This reminds me that I didn't Read More...
Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 3:06 AM by adrian ford | 1 Comments

Windows SDK

The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 and Windows Vista SP1, with support for Visual Studio 2005 & 2008) has RTM'd. More details on the Windows SDK blog . Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 5:42 PM by adrian ford | 1 Comments
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Examining XPS

Quality Logic have released XPS eXaminer . This .Net-based tool provides developers and testers with the ability to inspect and analyze the content within XPS files. Details, and a 30-day trial, on the Quality Logic site . Update: modified link. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:31 AM by adrian ford | 1 Comments
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Nuance does XPS in PDF Convertor 5

More news on support for XPS and interop with other formats. Nuance announced version 5 of PDF Creator earlier today ( press release ) with support for converting between XPS, PDF and editable formats, including those supported in Office. From the product Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:34 PM by adrian ford | 0 Comments
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Software Imaging Boosts XPS Performance

Software Imaging has updated PrintMagicXPS to take advantage of hyper-threading and multi-core architectures. Read more in the Press Release . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:20 PM by adrian ford | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 RTM

RTM = Released to Manufacturing Want more details? Follow the link ... Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 3:37 PM by adrian ford | 4 Comments
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Generating XPS Automagically

I got a mail overnight asking about ways to automatically generate XPS from applications, specifically asking for a way to enable existing applications that don't have knowledge of XPS to generate XPS content. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 12:16 AM by adrian ford | 2 Comments
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My Tablet Rocks

I spend a lot of time thinking about and working on the interactions between physical paper and electronic paper, hence, I guess, two types of paper. But there's another way that I'm not 'normal' — I use a Tablet PC . Two things reminded me of this Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 6:14 AM by adrian ford | 0 Comments
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