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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:03 PM

DigSig Whitepaper Available

There is a new whitepaper on digital signatures available on MSDN. Check it out .
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:02 PM

OPC Conformance Numbers Mapping

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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Monday, September 25, 2006 1:31 PM

XPS v0.95 Available

Get your copy at the XPS download website . This is the XPS specification release candidate. At this moment, we anticipate only formatting changes and the addition of an index for 1.0. Check in with us at xpsinfo@microsoft.com if you have questions.
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Monday, September 18, 2006 5:49 PM

XPS 0.95 New Conformance Rule - Relationships Missing Target Parts

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
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Monday, September 18, 2006 2:31 PM

XPS 0.95 Sideways Text Origin and Advance Width Clarification

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 formulas
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Friday, September 15, 2006 11:09 AM

XPS 0.95 Clarification on Landscape Printing

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 for
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Saturday, September 09, 2006 5:40 PM

XPS 0.95: New Conformance Rules - EXIF Support

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
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Saturday, September 09, 2006 4:25 PM

XPS 0.95 Signature Policy Correction

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.
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Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:46 PM

XPS 0.95 Clarification - TrueType Collections

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
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Friday, September 08, 2006 5:57 PM

XPS 0.95 Hairline Strokes

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
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Friday, September 08, 2006 4:13 PM

Glyphs Alpha Bug

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
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Friday, September 08, 2006 3:57 PM

XPS 0.95 Superluminous Colors

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
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Friday, September 08, 2006 12:18 PM

XPS 0.95 Implementation Limits

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 .
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Friday, September 08, 2006 11:23 AM

XPS 0.95 Color Blending Conformance Recommendation

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 colors
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Friday, September 08, 2006 10:52 AM

Beta 2 of the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack released to Web!

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).
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Friday, September 08, 2006 10:41 AM

XPS 0.95 ICC Profiles

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 [M8.13]:
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:01 PM

XPS 0.95 Conformance Rule Updates

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
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:54 PM

XPS 0.95 Clarification & Recommendation for ZIP Parsing

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 an XPS
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:40 PM

XPS 0.95 New Conformance Rule: DiscardControl

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 package
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Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:40 PM

XPS 0.95 Change: Name Attribute

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 previous
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Friday, September 01, 2006 3:00 PM

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Release Candidate Available

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.
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Friday, September 01, 2006 1:58 PM

Open Packaging Conventions & Open XML Markup Compatibility

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
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