August 2008 - Posts

XPS Standardization Update
22 August 08 09:03 PM

There’s an update on the activities to standardize XPS on the Ecma TC46 page . Enjoy. Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, TC46, Standards

New Toshiba e-Studio
21 August 08 03:17 PM

“…the e-STUDIO2330c provides Windows Vista-specific printing enhancements in the form of XPS Print Path drivers, Windows Color System support and Windows Vista WS print and scan support, while remaining 100 percent backwards-compatible with existing deployments.” Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, interop, print, vista

Automatically Opening XPS files from MXDW
20 August 08 08:48 PM

MXDW – the Microsoft XPS Document Writer – includes the ability to open XPS files that are created. To enable this, you’ll need to dig into the preferences dialog where you’ll find the following on the XPS Documents tab: The ‘Automatically open XPS documents Read More...

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Engineering Windows 7
19 August 08 10:50 PM

Interested in the engineering process for Windows 7? Then I'd recommend keeping up with the Engineering Windows 7 blog. As an example, this post covers the structure of the Windows Engineering Team. Enjoy. Read More...

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Filed under: microsoft

System-supplied property handler for XPS
18 August 08 07:23 PM

Did you know that Windows Vista includes a system-supplied property handler for XPS? Details of how to use the XPS handler, and on how to write your own handler, are available on MSDN . Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, vista

9 Business Benefits of XPS
13 August 08 07:03 PM

While I was away on holiday (vacation), NiXPS posted 9 XPS benefits for your business. Here they are… Benefit #1: XPS is ideal for sharing and publishing Benefit #2: XPS is truly ‘what you see is what you get’ Benefit #3: XPS is a reliable format for Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, industry

Where to get the latest XPS Print Path bits
01 August 08 07:04 PM

The XPS Print Path is shipped as part of Windows Vista and later but it’s also available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.  If you’re developing a hardware device driver for the XPS Print Path (an XPSDrv print driver) you’ll probably want to Read More...

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Okular XPS
01 August 08 06:44 AM

Okular, the document viewer included in KDE, has reached version 0.7 . I liked this bit from the random ordered list of features and improvements... "XPS backend: various loading and rendering improvements, should be much more usable now" Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, interop