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27 August 09 08:26 PM

There’s a new blog in town – the print team blog on TechNet – which joins the XPS team and Packaging team as a place for information on XPS, documents and printing in and around the Windows platform. Recommended. Read More...

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Publisher 2010 TR and Printing to XPS
23 July 09 09:15 PM

Justin just posted on the XPS team blog news of Publisher 2010 support for printing via the XPS Print Path. When used with a device that supports XPS, Publisher generates XPS print content and submits that directly to the XPS Print Path. The technical Read More...

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Ecma-388 PR
21 July 09 08:54 PM

Ecma has published a press release on the approval of OpenXPS which includes quotes from many of the companies involved in the standard. Related, Dan has published some background details on the XPS Team Blog . Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, TC46, Ecma, OpenXPS

Aspose.Words for .NET 6.5.0 supports export to XML Paper Specification (XPS)
07 July 09 09:40 PM

Title says it all. See the link for details. Read More...

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OpenXPS Links
06 July 09 05:36 PM

Some OpenXPS links… Ecma announcement : ECMA-388 approved Stephen McGibbon , European Regional Technology Officer, on Ecma OpenXPS Martin Bailey , former TC46 chair and CTO of Global Graphics OpenXPS White Paper Download the standard (specification and Read More...

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GreenPrint in the New York Times
06 July 09 04:55 PM

That Long, Long Road from Idea to Success (with a minor mention of XPS). Read More...

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GreenPrint v2 with XPS
18 June 09 04:32 PM

GreenPrint Software have released version 2 of GreenPrint, their tool to help reduce unnecessary printing. The Press Release includes the following: The paper-saving software, which eliminates unwanted pages and reduces printing by 17% or more, has been Read More...

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kReader PC
08 June 09 08:34 PM

The team at knfbReading Technology have built a book reader targeting assisted reading and study skills for students and based on the XPS format. Here’s a glimpse: More details on kReader PC on the knfbReader site . Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround

gDoc Fusion
18 May 09 06:40 PM

Global Graphics have released gDoc Fusion and gDoc Creator that provide conversion and editing functionality for working with various file formats, including PDF, XPS and Word OOXML. Details on their site . Read More...

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Browser Tab Sweep
18 May 09 05:48 PM

NiXPS on OpenXPS, Office 2007 SP2 and Windows 7 XPS Viewer. Global Graphics now blogging on XPS, PDF and related stuff. java-axp: 100% Java XPS file reader (old, but had dropped off my radar). Make sure you UpdateLayout() when using XPS in WPF. Markware Read More...

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Packaging Team Blog
18 May 09 05:39 PM

The foundation for XPS (OpenXPS), OOXML and a number of other formats is a common ZIP-based container. This container is defined by the Open Packaging Conventions and is standardized in ISO/IEC 29500-2 and ECMA 376-2 . (We often refer to Open Packaging Read More...

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Zoran Enhances XPS Print Path Support
11 May 09 07:10 PM

Zoran has announced enhancements to their IPS DDK 3.0 driver development kit with XPS Print Path support, including support for Windows 7. Details in the press release . Read More...

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Filed under: XPS, newsround, print

Active XPS
06 May 09 06:29 PM

ActivePDF adds support for XPS in activePDF Server 2009 . Details in the press release . Read More...

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Windows 7 Release Candidate
05 May 09 04:30 PM

In case you’re reading this haven’t already got the Windows 7 RC via MSDN or TechNet , you can now download via the Windows 7 page on microsoft.com . Enjoy. Read More...

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Document Toolkit v1 available
04 May 09 08:12 PM

First Floor have released version 1.0 of their document toolkit for client-side display of XPS using Silverlight. Details in this blog post . The documentation is also available online, including details of conformance with the spec, note that TIFF and Read More...

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