XPS News
Windows 7 Will Include New Win32 API’s For XPS
The next version of Windows — which coincidentally actually looks pretty good — will include new Win32 API’s for XPS developers. The new API’s will be:
XPS API provides creation, manipulation, reading, writing and other services for XPS documents and print streams
OPC API provides creation, manipulation, reading, writing and other services for Open Packaging Conventions-based file formats, including [...]
XPS document testing from XPS Associates
XPS Associates offer an application called C-XPS Render which helps you to test the quality and accuracy of XPS renderers, RIPs, viewers, converters and printing systems. Some potential uses (as advertised on their website) are:
Use a single test page to check rendered, displayed, converted or printed XPS output.
Conduct benchmark tests to compare the quality and [...]
New XPS Viewer from Software Imaging
Software Imaging have released a new XPS viewer as a free download. The viewer uses Software Imaging’s own PrintMagicXPS technology to render the XPS documents, which differs from other XPS viewers because it is developed in C++ native code, and therefore has no dependency on .Net or managed code.
Features include:
High quality rasterizer which leverages Software Imaging’s PrintMagicXPS technology
Full [...]
Nuance adds XPS support to OmniPage Capture SDK 16
September 17, 2008 — Nuance Communications today announced that it has “…added robust support for the XML Paper Specification, XPS, which enables document sharing and archiving with Windows Vista.” to OmniPage Capture SDK 16.
Read full press release here.
9 business benefits of XPS
In a recent blog series by NiXPS listed 9 business benefits of XPS:
Benefit #1: XPS is ideal for sharing and publishing
Benefit #2: XPS is truly ‘what you see is what you get’
Benefit #3: XPS is a reliable format for the future
Benefit #4: XPS is safe
Benefit #5: XPS is easy
Benefit #6: XPS is efficient
Benefit #7: XPS [...]
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We’re always interested to hear about new developments in digital documents whether they be online, offline, xps, flash, pdf, or in fact, anything at all — even a notepad text file, if you’ve got a cool way of using it.
Our number one concern is sharing the knowledge — so if you’ve got something worth [...]
What’s going on with XPS?
In 2006 Microsoft revealed XPS (codenamed “Metro”) to the world, it’s an an XML based final-form-file-format (try saying that 3 times in a row), with similar goals to PDF.
They included a XPS writer and viewer in Windows Vista, a Save to XPS add-on for Office 2007, as well using it as the internal Vista print [...]
