Adrian Ford on XPS et cetera
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EFI add XPS
EFI announced yesterday that they will be showcasing the Fiery open platform at drupa 2008 with...
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/16/2008
Another View
I recently linked to news about News Corporations investment in newprint. For a contrasting view,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/19/2008
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM'd last month and today it appeared as an available update on...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/19/2008
Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta continues to roll out devices with in-built support for XPS, the latest is the bizhub...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/17/2008
Fascinating
Gail Nickel-Kailing reported on the combination of AIIM, OnDemand and Xplor XDU for whattheythink....
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/13/2008
Ecma TC46 Update
Ecma TC46, the technical committee that's working on standardizing XPS, has published a couple of...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/07/2008
Emotional Bond With Paper
"Book lovers have a message for e-book makers: you can have my paperback when you pry it from my...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/05/2008
ImageGear
Today at the the 2008 AIIM Exposition & Conference AccuSoft announced a major update to...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/04/2008
Pagemark at AIIM
Pagemark has announced that it will be demonstrating a multi platform XPS viewer and rendering...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/04/2008
I'm Not At AIIM...
...and I'm not at OnDemand either. AIIM | OnDemand Microsoft is there, as are a number of other...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/04/2008
I Preview
Outlook 2007 has a great feature that enables you to preview attachments within Outlook without...
Author: adrian ford Date: 03/03/2008
Catching up
I was out for most of last week so here's a quick catch up on XPS-related stuff... "While PDF...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/25/2008
Autodesk: AutoCAD, DWFx and XPS
Yesterday, Autodesk announced the next release of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, as part of a family of...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/13/2008
Enabling XPS in Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 provides support for XPS viewing, but it's not enabled by default — after all,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/11/2008
Server Perf Team on XPS
CC Hameed on the server perf team (although, more properly, I think that should be the Enterprise...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/10/2008
Windows SDK
The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 and Windows Vista SP1, with support for...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/08/2008
Examining XPS
Quality Logic have released XPS eXaminer. This .Net-based tool provides developers and testers with...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/06/2008
Nuance does XPS in PDF Convertor 5
More news on support for XPS and interop with other formats. Nuance announced version 5 of PDF...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/06/2008
Software Imaging Boosts XPS Performance
Software Imaging has updated PrintMagicXPS to take advantage of hyper-threading and multi-core...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/06/2008
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 RTM
RTM = Released to Manufacturing Want more details? Follow the link...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/04/2008
Generating XPS Automagically
I got a mail overnight asking about ways to automatically generate XPS from applications,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/01/2008
My Tablet Rocks
I spend a lot of time thinking about and working on the interactions between physical paper and...
Author: adrian ford Date: 02/01/2008
Printing Is Easier with Easy Print
Printing hasn't always been the easiest thing to configure and manage in Terminal Services. As Greg...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/31/2008
More XPS Editing
I mentioned OneVision when they announced XPS support in Solvero and Asura last December; but I'd...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/30/2008
Adam Does XPS
The title says it: ADAM, a .Net based Digital Asset Management System, now supports XPS. NiXPS...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/30/2008
More multi platform XPS
More news on XPS support across multiple platforms: Pagemark have announced XPS on a Freescale Power...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/29/2008
XPS on Linux
KDE 4.0 (see announcement) now includes the Okular document viewer which, according to the...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/28/2008
Configuring Compression in XPS Drivers
This is an update on controlling compression options in a driver. In Windows Vista SP1 we've added...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/27/2008
Toshiba launches e-Studio devices with XPS support
Toshiba announced earlier today the e-Studio 523/603/723/853 MFP devices with support for the XPS...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/24/2008
TC46 / XPS Standardization Update
The snow was kind and I had an uneventful trip down to Vegas for three days of TC46 meetings —...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/23/2008
Where is isXPS?
MSDN provides details of isXPS, a tool that tests conformance of files with XPS and OPC. You can...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/22/2008
Ecma TC46 Meeting in Las Vegas
There's a TC46 meeting in Las Vegas this week, following previous meetings in Cambridge and Tokyo,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/15/2008
New brand at Xerox
New year, new logo: Xerox has a new brand and the New York Times has the story (thanks Justin!).
Author: adrian ford Date: 01/08/2008
HD Photo Plug-in for PhotoShop
The final version of the HD Photo plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop are now available for Windows and Mac...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/07/2007
OneVision Brings Interactive Editing to XPS
Adoption continues as OneVision announces the launch of new versions of Solvero and Asura with, as...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/05/2007
More from Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta continues to roll out devices, like the pagepro 5650EN, with support for XPS Direct...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/04/2007
PAGEMARK Announce SHARP to use XPS Solutions
Pagemark Technology announced yesterday that SHARP corporation has licensed Pagemark's XPS Rendering...
Author: adrian ford Date: 12/04/2007
DOCX to XPS
A question that crops up fairly frequently on an internal list is the best way to convert docx to...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/20/2007
e by Book
My music, photos, movies and other media have all gone digital (I'm almost completely weaned off...
Author: adrian ford Date: 11/18/2007
Some Attention
"XPS hasn't got the attention it deserves. It's a great new portable document format of very high...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/24/2007
XPS in Windows Vista
Time for a post on one of the XPS features in Windows Vista which I use a lot - archiving to XPS...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/23/2007
Controlling compression options from a driver
In a previous post I wrote about controlling compression for the Microsoft XPS Document Writer....
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/12/2007
More Konica Minolta MFPs With XPS
Konica Minolta have announced three more MFPs (Multifunctional Product/Peripheral) with support for...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/11/2007
Infragistics NetAdvantage
Infragistics announced NetAdvantage for .Net 2007 Volume 3 (Press Release) which provides enterprise...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/09/2007
Print Verifier
"PrintVerifier is a runtime verification engine for monitoring interaction between third party...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/08/2007
MXDW and Image Content
A question was asked recently on an internal list about why the image content in XPS files generated...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/02/2007
Assentis do XPS
Assentis, providers of solutions for on-demand document creation and transactional printing, have...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/24/2007
SANAtech do XPS
SANAtech have published details a viewing control that enables XPS viewing capabilities to be...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/24/2007
Printing, fonts and stuff of a related nature
I had an interesting discussion earlier this week with Howie Fenton, a writer for GraphicArts online...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/20/2007