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 ...

Microsoft Word can save and convert any document into the XML Paper Specification (XPS) file, but due to the nature of the XPS format, importing XPS files into Word is more complicated. There is 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...