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January 2006 - Posts

Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:07 AM

Zoran announces XPS rendering support for printers

Sunnyvale, Calif. - January 17, 2005 - Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq: ZRAN) announced that its IPS/XPS interpreter for Microsoft’s new XPS Document format will be available to printer and multifunction peripheral (MFP) manufacturers through an Early Adopter
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:10 AM

Optimize XPS markup

XPS is hot, so naturally more and more applications will be generating XPS. If your application has access to the XPS Document Writer, then the easiest way to generate XPS is just print to it. But there are cases you may want to generate XPS on your own,
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:11 AM

Proposal of purchase for a tiny piece of real estate

Just finished writing first draft of a proposal of purchase, for a tiny piece of real estate, 8 square inch, 9.5-inch high ceiling, on your book shelf.
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Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:04 AM

Sell your copy of Windows Graphics Programming: Win32 GDI and DirectDraw

Just before the new year, I noticed a copy of my book was listed on amazon.com for $160 (the listing price of the book is $60). A few days ago when I checked again, it was gone. Some poor guy or poor company paid more than double the original price of
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:49 PM

Seven Year Itch

Seven years ago, I was working for Hewlett-Packard on its inkjet printer drivers. Having worked on printer drivers for a few years, I felt that I knew something about GDI that other developers would like to know too, and more importantly I wanted to everything
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