Adrian Ford on XPS et cetera

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.

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...

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 .

Title says it all. See the link for details.

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...

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

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...

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 .

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 .

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...

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...

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 .

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

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.

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...

Dan just posted details of the Windows HD Imaging Additional Qualifier (AQ) for the Windows 7 logo program. Details and links are on the XPS team blog .

Office service pack 2 is now available – you can read the details pretty much anywhere but a good place to start is the Inside Office blog which has links to the official announcement, blog articles, technical and support information and, yes, the download...

Another XPS in Silverlight link. This one is from Simon Guest with details on how he updated David Anson’s sample to work around changes in Silverlight 2. Source code available.

David Rasmussen on using XPS to print to OneNote. There’s also a codeplex project .

After 20 months of hard work, 8 face-to-face meetings (in Japan, Europe and the USA), numerous conference calls and a load of email, TC46, the technical committee working on the standardization of XPS, has published the final draft of the OpenXPS specification...

Koen Zwikstra has announced a document toolkit for Silverlight that provides client-side viewing of XPS using Silverlight (2 & 3).  A preview is also available, you can find it hosted for evaluation purposes at http://firstfloorsoftware.com/liveapps...

XPS will be at AIIM this week (International Exposition and Conference 2009). Details in this post on the XPS team blog. Oh, and it’s the other Adrian that’ll be there…

The print verifier team have posted details of using PrintVerifier with XPSDrv-based drivers. Read on .  

TC46 has made working draft 1.5 available for download from the Documents section of the TC46 website. The committee is meeting in Lexington this week, kindly hosted by Lexmark , to resolve the last remaining editorial and technical issues to finalize...

The next face-to-face meeting for the technical committee is in Lexington next week and will be hosted by Lexmark . As ever, you can track progress on the TC46 Activities page, access working drafts and the issues tracking spreadsheet (updated Jan 2009...