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 ...

There’s no doubt about it: Adobe’s Portable Document Format better known as PDF is a choice tool for digital document delivery. Some might say that it’s the tool for delivering complex documents to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Office 2007 lets you convert your documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations to PDF — optimized for online documents, printed documents, or both. Before you can convert your document to PDF ...