XML Paper Specification
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The XML Paper Specification (XPS), formerly codenamed "Metro" and subsuming the Next Generation Print Path (NGPP) marketing concept, is Microsoft's initiative to integrate document creation and viewing into its Windows operating system. The specification itself describes the formats and rules for distributing, archiving, rendering, and processing XPS documents. Most notably, XPS uses the Windows Presentation Foundation, so that the methods used for rendering for display in Windows are the same as those used for rendering for print devices.
XPS is viewed as a potential competitor to Adobe's portable document format (PDF). XPS however is a static document format that does not include dynamic capabilities similar to those of PDF.
XPS is scheduled to be shipped with Microsoft's Windows Vista and has the support of office printing system companies such as Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh and Xerox and software companies such as Informative Graphics[link].
Licensing
In order to encourage wide use of the format, Microsoft intends to release XPS under a royalty-free patent license, allowing users to freely create implementations of the specification that read, write and render XPS files. Microsoft will also include a provision in the patent license, called the "Covenant Not to Sue" provision, pledging not to sue particular businesses for use of XPS. The specification itself will be released under a royalty-free copyright license, allowing its free distribution.[XML Paper Specification Licensing], Microsoft. Retrieved on June 8, 2006.See also
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