Adrian Ford on XPS et cetera
two types of paper
Going to PDC or WinHEC?
Going to WinHEC or PDC? If so, the team would love to meet up, I'll be down in Los Angeles for PDC...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/24/2008
Viewer Comparisons
Pagemark Technology has published a comparison of the performance of different XPS viewers (XPS,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/23/2008
Monarch data import with XPS
Datawatch has released an update for their Monarch application for report mining and analysis....
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/21/2008
16 bits and more printing on Windows
I’ve been hearing recently about 16-bit printing and how, apparently, you can’t do it on...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/21/2008
Capturing XPS
MadCap announced today that the latest version of Capture includes XPS support: “Capture 3.0...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/06/2008
Zoran IPS 8.1
Zoran has announced version 8.1 of the IPS interpreter which “…fully supports Microsoft’s XPSDrv...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/06/2008
More XPS with Toshiba e-STUDIO
Today Toshiba announced the immediate availability of the Toshiba...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/01/2008
XPS testing from XPS Associates
XPS Associates have released two testing products for XPS: C-XPS Render is designed to test accurate...
Author: adrian ford Date: 10/01/2008
Another XPS viewer
Not content with the multiple XPS viewers for Windows, Mac & Linux? Software Imaging have...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/30/2008
MagiColor XPS
Konica Minolta continue to release products with support for XPS, the latest is the Magicolor 5600...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/30/2008
PDC & WinHEC
PDC Tim has a nice post outlining some of what you might hear about if you’re going to PDC this...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/26/2008
Nuance OmniPage Capture SDK 16
Nuance has announced OmniPage Capture SDK 16 — "Nuance has also added robust support for the XML...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/17/2008
IRIS updates XPS Support
IRISPdf has been updated to version 7.2. XPS is included in the list of enhancements: “An important...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/09/2008
XPS Blaze
MadCap Software has announced MadCap Blaze, a new tool long document authoring, with support for...
Author: adrian ford Date: 09/09/2008
XPS Standardization Update
There’s an update on the activities to standardize XPS on the Ecma TC46 page. Enjoy.
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/22/2008
New Toshiba e-Studio
“…the e-STUDIO2330c provides Windows Vista-specific printing enhancements in the form of XPS Print...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/21/2008
Automatically Opening XPS files from MXDW
MXDW – the Microsoft XPS Document Writer – includes the ability to open XPS files that are created....
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/20/2008
Engineering Windows 7
Interested in the engineering process for Windows 7? Then I'd recommend keeping up with the...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/19/2008
System-supplied property handler for XPS
Did you know that Windows Vista includes a system-supplied property handler for XPS? Details of how...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/18/2008
9 Business Benefits of XPS
While I was away on holiday (vacation), NiXPS posted 9 XPS benefits for your business. Here they...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/13/2008
Where to get the latest XPS Print Path bits
The XPS Print Path is shipped as part of Windows Vista and later but it’s also available for Windows...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/01/2008
Okular XPS
Okular, the document viewer included in KDE, has reached version 0.7. I liked this bit from the...
Author: adrian ford Date: 08/01/2008
Everything is a link in the chain
Or maybe everything is in a cycle... Develop XPS, awesome fixed format document and print stream...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/30/2008
WPF <> XPS
A favorite question I get asked is “When will [insert some application name] be ported to WPF?” WPF...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/30/2008
XPS: One format to rule them all (or maybe not)
One format or multiple formats? Some would have you believe that one format does everything everyone...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/29/2008
Data-binding XPS with WPF
Mark Nijhof on using WPF data binding to create XPS documents from templates.
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/13/2008
XPS in Ability Office
Version 5 of Ability Office is now available as a preview / beta from Ability. Version 5 adds...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/07/2008
Visual Studio and XPS files
If you work with XPS files a lot you might find this tool useful. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/03/2008
Canon imageRUNNER with XPS
Canon USA announced the imageRUNNER 3245/3245i/3235/3235i/3230/3225 MFPs with "Rich Color Universal...
Author: adrian ford Date: 07/02/2008
PDC 2008
This year the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is at the Los Angeles Convention...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/30/2008
WinHEC 2008
WinHEC is the only Microsoft conference that focuses on designing PCs, servers, and devices that run...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/30/2008
I.R.I.S & XPS
I.R.I.S announced today that they will be extending their agreement to provide HP with OCR and...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/19/2008
Autodesk DWF Toolkit
Autodesk has announced version 7.5 of the Autodesk DWF Toolkit which now supports XPS-based DWFx...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/11/2008
Océ announce XPS Device Support
Océ has announced two new color MFPs with XPS support, the cm2522 and cm3522: ...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/09/2008
XPS Mimic
Madcap Software has announced Mimic 2.0, a software simulation tool, with support for output to...
Author: adrian ford Date: 06/09/2008
Type writing
"The Japanese multinational Brother sold 12,000 electronic typewriters last year in the UK,...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/30/2008
Enfocus, Gradual and EskoArtwork
EskoArtwork recently announced the acquisition of Gradual Software with the merging of Gradual...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/29/2008
drupa and XPS
It's drupa time! For those not familiar with the event, it's a rather large trade show for the...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/29/2008
Microsoft Contributes Web Services Protocol to Broaden Interoperability
As part of its customer-focused commitment to interoperability, of which XPS is one part, Microsoft...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/29/2008
Printing Green with XPS
My email signature varies, but typically it looks something like this: Don't need to print this? If...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/28/2008
TC46 Web Site Update
Martin, chair of TC46, and the Ecma team in Geneva have updated the TC46 section of the Ecma web...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/27/2008
NiXPS Two and a half
NiXPS announce version 2.5 of NiXPS Edit and NiXPS View and have also posted a presentation on...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/22/2008
XPS and the Office Interoperability Announcement
Earlier today, the Office team announced that Microsoft will expand the range of formats supported...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/21/2008
XPS viewing for WIndows, Mac, Linux and OpenSolaris
I mentioned SANAtech and the cross-platform support they had for XPS in a post last year. They also...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/20/2008
Ultimate XPS Support
Ultimate Technologies have announced support for XPS imposition in a the Ultimate XPS Imposition...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/15/2008
XPS Plus
You learn something new everyday... ...someone just pointed me to www.xpsplus.com, a site that...
Author: adrian ford Date: 05/13/2008
Three Days in Prison
I spent 3 days in prison last week, or rather in the former Oxford prison that has now been...
Author: adrian ford Date: 04/24/2008