Adrian Ford on XPS et cetera
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There’s a new blog in town – the print team blog on TechNet – which joins the XPS team and Packaging...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/27/2009
Publisher 2010 TR and Printing to XPS
Justin just posted on the XPS team blog news of Publisher 2010 support for printing via the XPS...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/23/2009
Ecma-388 PR
Ecma has published a press release on the approval of OpenXPS which includes quotes from many of the...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/21/2009
Aspose.Words for .NET 6.5.0 supports export to XML Paper Specification (XPS)
Title says it all. See the link for details.
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/07/2009
OpenXPS Links
Some OpenXPS links… Ecma announcement: ECMA-388 approved Stephen McGibbon, European Regional...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/06/2009
GreenPrint in the New York Times
That Long, Long Road from Idea to Success (with a minor mention of XPS).
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/06/2009
GreenPrint v2 with XPS
GreenPrint Software have released version 2 of GreenPrint, their tool to help reduce unnecessary...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/18/2009
kReader PC
The team at knfbReading Technology have built a book reader targeting assisted reading and study...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/08/2009
gDoc Fusion
Global Graphics have released gDoc Fusion and gDoc Creator that provide conversion and editing...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/18/2009
Browser Tab Sweep
NiXPS on OpenXPS, Office 2007 SP2 and Windows 7 XPS Viewer. Global Graphics now blogging on XPS, PDF...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/18/2009
Packaging Team Blog
The foundation for XPS (OpenXPS), OOXML and a number of other formats is a common ZIP-based...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/18/2009
Zoran Enhances XPS Print Path Support
Zoran has announced enhancements to their IPS DDK 3.0 driver development kit with XPS Print Path...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/11/2009
Active XPS
ActivePDF adds support for XPS in activePDF Server 2009. Details in the press release.
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/06/2009
Windows 7 Release Candidate
In case you’re reading this haven’t already got the Windows 7 RC via MSDN or TechNet, you can now...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/05/2009
Document Toolkit v1 available
First Floor have released version 1.0 of their document toolkit for client-side display of XPS using...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/04/2009
Windows HD Imaging AQ
Dan just posted details of the Windows HD Imaging Additional Qualifier (AQ) for the Windows 7 logo...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/01/2009
Office Service Pack 2 with XPS
Office service pack 2 is now available – you can read the details pretty much anywhere but a good...
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/29/2009
SimonSays How to Display XPS in Silverlight
Another XPS in Silverlight link. This one is from Simon Guest with details on how he updated David...
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/27/2009
XPS to OneNote
David Rasmussen on using XPS to print to OneNote. There’s also a codeplex project.
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/27/2009
Final Draft of OpenXPS
After 20 months of hard work, 8 face-to-face meetings (in Japan, Europe and the USA), numerous...
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/27/2009
FirstFloor Silverlight Document Viewer for XPS
Koen Zwikstra has announced a document toolkit for Silverlight that provides client-side viewing of...
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/24/2009
XPS at AIIM
XPS will be at AIIM this week (International Exposition and Conference 2009). Details in this post...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/31/2009
Using PrintVerifier with XPSDrv
The print verifier team have posted details of using PrintVerifier with XPSDrv-based drivers. Read...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/24/2009
Working Draft 1.5
TC46 has made working draft 1.5 available for download from the Documents section of the TC46...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/12/2009
A TC46 Update
The next face-to-face meeting for the technical committee is in Lexington next week and will be...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/06/2009
XPS Rasterization Service (on the WDK Documentation Blog)
An area that we received a lot of feedback on when we originally introduced the XPS Print Path was...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/04/2009
Microsoft Download Center
Scanning an article on Ars about the updated download center (or facelift as they referred to it) on...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/27/2009
Micropress joins Fiery
EFI announced a “significantly enhanced” MicroPress with many new features including XPS support....
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/25/2009
Quality Logic Blog
The team over at Quality Logic are blogging (and have been for some time, which I missed until now....
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/25/2009
4 x PDF on XPS
"Standards need to be open, otherwise they won’t be accepted anymore. Interoperability is...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/25/2009
NiXPS: now with PDF and SVG
From NiXPS: NiXPS View v2.6.1 now features PDF export. NiXPS Edit can now export XPS pages to SVG,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/28/2009
Browser Tab Roundup
What with Windows 7 Beta and the work in TC46 things have been a little busy recently, and my nice...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/27/2009
Ben on XPS and OPC
Ben on the XPS and OPC APIs.
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/15/2009
Windows 7 Beta SDK
Here’s the link to the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: BETA...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/15/2009
Get tagging (with XPS)
https://www.microsoft.com/tag/
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/14/2009
Windows 7 Beta MSDN Library Content Available
The content team has published Windows 7 SDK documentation for some of the Win32 APIs in the Windows...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/13/2009
MSDN Code Gallery for XPS
The code gallery for the XPS APIs in Windows 7 is now live on MSDN. The gallery has three code...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/12/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta
In addition to Windows 7 beta, there’s also a beta available for Windows Server 2008 R2. Details on...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/09/2009
Windows 7 Beta
For those that have been asking… the Windows 7 beta is now available via MSDN and TechNet...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/08/2009
TC46 in Genève
This week TC46 is meeting at the Hôtel Longemalle in Genève, hosted by Ecma International. Details...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/11/2008
MSDN XPS Forum is Moving
The MSDN forum for XPS is moving. Once transitioned you’ll find the forum at this location...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/11/2008
Kyocera Mita does XPS
Kyocera Mita has announced the TASKalfa 500ci series of Color Multifunctional Products with support...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/10/2008
NiXPS Updated
NiXPS have updated their SDK (now version 2.6) and it now supports output to SVG in addition to PDF,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/12/2008
PDC Hands-On-Lab
At PDC there were a number of hands-on-labs (HOL) that enable developers to get hands-on experience...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/12/2008
Windows 7 Developers Guide
MSDN has the Windows 7 Developers Guide available for download. The guide provides an overview of...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/05/2008
XPS at WinHEC
There’s loads of great stuff on the agenda for WinHEC (how I wish I was going back down to LA…) but...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/05/2008
Busy Busy Busy
It’s not just us who have been busy, there’s also new stuff on the XPS Technology Showcase.
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/05/2008
New XPS Features in Windows 7
We’ve been busy. Last week at PDC we unveiled Windows 7 and provided developers with a first look at...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/03/2008
XPS Essentials Pack Update
The XPS Essentials Pack has been updated with support for Windows XP SP3 - details on the XPS Team...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/29/2008
Windows 7 @ PDC
Yesterday Steven announced Windows 7 in the PDC second day keynote. It's been great to be in LA to...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/29/2008