The XML Paper Specification was developed by Microsoft and ECMA International and released in 2006. XPS offers an open standard for creating, editing, processing and printing fixed-layout documents.

Silverlight, the rich-media technology that Microsoft Corp. trotted out last week, isn’t the company’s only attack on Adobe Systems Inc.’s multimedia dominance. In addition to Silverlight, touted as a ...

Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification (XPS) alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, ...

Microsoft has announced that it has chartered a new Technical Committee to submit a new standard to the standards-setting body Ecma International. The would-be standard involves "creating an XML-based ...

I have a need to convert XPS to PDF on an irregular basis. I can't install so it just needs to be an exe that I can just launch. I can't use a web based free service because uploading the XPS would ...

With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced the XPS, or XML Paper Specification, portable document type. Microsoft designed the XPS format to be a direct competitor of the more widely used ...

The really short version of this announcement is that Office is going to support ODF, PDF, and XPS in the product directly and Microsoft engineers are going to join the OASIS working group on ODF, ...