XPS Team Blog - XML Paper Specification and the Open Packaging Conventions

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There were a number of changes to the conformance rule numbers in the Open Packaging Conventions (working draft 1.4) as we posted earlier this month. Below is the mapping of conformance rule numbers (sorted by the new rule numbers) from 0.85 to working...

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The following conformance rule was added to explicitly spell out the behavior when encountering a relationship in an XPS Document whose Target references a part that does not exist in the package. Producers that generate a relationship MUST include...

The XPS spec was previously unclear about calculations of the origin and incomplete on the calculations of advance width for sideways text. Section 5.1.6.2 has been updated as follows: 5.1.6.2 Calculating Sideways Text Origin and Advance Width The...

We've added the following note to 3.3.4 to help clarify how landscape printing is done and how that interacts with PrintTicket settings. Note: Fixed pages intended for landscape-orientation printing must be produced differently than those intended...

By examining the prevalence of EXIF markers in JPEG images, and to a lesser extent, we are requiring support for the EXIF 2.2 JPEG markers and TIFF tags as part of the XPS Specification. The new conformance rules are as follows: Consumers MUST support...

The SignatureDefinitions part was incorrectly listed as a part that the signer MAY sign. In XPS 0.95 it has been corrected to state that any SignatureDefinitions part MUST be signed if it is present.

XPS v0.95 includes the clarification that if a fragment is not specified when referencing a Font part URI, the first font face is selected in the same way as if the URI had specified a fragment "#0". We also clarified that the fragment MUST be an integer...

Although the XPS specificaton does not natively support designating certain strokes as hairlines, feedback has shown that the specification should provide a recommendation regarding how producers and consumers that need these features can include the...

It has come to our attention that the .NET 3.0 Framework XPS Viewer has a bug where the alpha component of the <Glyphs> Fill attribute value renders too lightly due to gamma correction introduced through the use of ClearType algorithms. Producers...

We have clarified how consumers that do not understand superluminous colors should behave when encountering them in section 11.4.1 of the XPS specification v0.95. The text is as follows: Consumers MAY handle superluminous colors or MAY instead choose...

The implementation limits recommendations in Table 11-1 for coordinate values and smallest representable non-zero values have been reduced in XPS v0.95 to +/- 10 12 .

Conformance recommendation S11.13 has been clarified as follows in XPS v0.95. If any gradient stops use an sRGB or scRGB color specification or the consumer does not understand the PageBlendColorSpace PrintTicket setting, consumers SHOULD blend...

Beta 2 of the XML Paper Specification (XPS) Essentials Pack has been released. The Essentials Pack contains XPS technologies that are based on the Win32 API. This pack is supported on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 (latest service pack...

In section 8.1.8, the XPS specification describes which ICC color profiles must be supported. We have added ColorSpace Conversion profiles to that list in v0.95. Text is as follows: All ICC profiles used in XPS Documents MUST be one of the following...

We've been working to improve the conformance rules summarized in Appendix J of the XPS specification. We've made a few changes for v0.95, described below. Where a rule has been deprecated, the deprecated rule ID has been retired, the other rule IDs have...

The following clarifying note and recommendation have been added to section 10.1 of the XPS specification in regard different methods of parsing the ZIP-based package that is the foundation of the XPS Document. Note: Consumers can choose to parse...

We have added the following new conformance rule describing the usage of DiscardControl parts. This rule only applies to producers that generate DiscardControl parts and producers that consume them. There MUST NOT be more than one DiscardControl...

Version 0.95 of the XPS specification will add the following restriction to the usage of the Name attribute within a resource dictionary: The Name attribute MUST NOT be specified on any children of a <ResourceDictionary> element [M9.10]. ...

The Release Candidate for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 was posted today. You can install the latest version and check out the integrated XPS Viewer and also the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) print driver to create XPS Documents from any application...

As you may already know, the Open Packaging Conventions and Open XML Markup Compatibility specifications are an important foundation to both the XML Paper Specification and the Office Open XML document formats. The Office Open XML document formats have...