March 2008 - Posts

Another View
19 March 08 10:16 PM

I recently linked to news about News Corporations investment in newprint. For a contrasting view, take a look at this piece from market watch analyzing why the cost of paper is increasing while news paper demand falls. Read More...

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Windows Vista Service Pack 1
19 March 08 07:24 AM

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM'd last month and today it appeared as an available update on my Vista machines at home. Here it is... Details of notable changes (that's changes " focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and Read More...

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Konica Minolta
18 March 08 02:42 AM

Konica Minolta continues to roll out devices with in-built support for XPS, the latest is the bizhub 40P/40PX monchrome desktop printer. More in the press release and Konica Minolta web site . var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, print

Worlds Biggest Print Plant
17 March 08 03:51 AM

The BBC reports that News International has opened the world's largest printing plant — an investment of around £650 million (about $1.3 billion at today's rate). That's a reasonable indication that someone expects significant value in the newsprint market Read More...

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Fascinating
14 March 08 04:25 AM

Gail Nickel-Kailing reported on the combination of AIIM, OnDemand and Xplor XDU for whattheythink . One snippet highlighted in the report: Fascinating also was the emphasis on the “Xs” – XML and XPS, both on the display floor on the “blue side” – that Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, events

Ecma TC46 Update
07 March 08 09:24 PM

Ecma TC46, the technical committee that's working on standardizing XPS, has published a couple of updates to the working documents section of the TC46 web site. First up, is a new working draft (version 1.1), that shows changes since the previous draft Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, TC46

Emotional Bond With Paper
05 March 08 05:20 AM

"Book lovers have a message for e-book makers: you can have my paperback when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers." Read the whole story in ars technica . Read More...

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ImageGear
05 March 08 02:30 AM

Today at the the 2008 AIIM Exposition & Conference AccuSoft announced a major update to ImageGear Professional and ImageGear for .Net . “With these ImageGear releases -- together with our new ImageGear for Silverlight toolkit -- we’re Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, interop

Pagemark at AIIM
04 March 08 07:38 PM

Pagemark has announced that it will be demonstrating a multi platform XPS viewer and rendering solutions for Windows Vista, Windows CE, Apple Macintosh and Embedded Linux operating systems at this years AIIM. RanDair Porter, Pagemark president, from the Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, interop

I'm Not At AIIM...
04 March 08 11:45 AM

...and I'm not at OnDemand either. AIIM | OnDemand Microsoft is there , as are a number of other companies that are doing interesting things with XPS. Here are links to the things I'm aware of... Adlib Software Amyuni KnowledgeLake Microsoft NiXPS Nuance Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround

I Preview
04 March 08 03:48 AM

Outlook 2007 has a great feature that enables you to preview attachments within Outlook without having to start an instance of another application. Windows Explorer (in Windows Vista) has a similar feature. Both are very useful tools as part of an information Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, vista