As from the "Specification and License Downloads" tab http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/downloads.mspx
we can read "... XML Paper Specification The XML Paper Specification describes XPS documents. An XPS document is a paginated representation of electronic paper that is described by an XML-based language. XPS documents are open, cross-platform documents that allow customers to effortlessly generate, share, print, and archive paginated documents. Microsoft has published the XML Paper Specification and made it available royalty-free. XML Paper Specification v.1.0 (October 2006) Community Promise for XPS ... " I post this for truth love, but the word "Promise" is not sounding like music!!! Have a Sunny day! Carlo Alan Lord ha scritto: > bryan rasmussen wrote: > <snip /> >> >> What exactly is needed for specification aside from >> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx ? As far as I can >> recall the first release of XPS had all the specs. I agree it is a >> shot at Adobe but that doesn't make it a bad thing. >> > > Not necessarily, but the ownership of this specification is Microsoft's > and they have "previous form" (as we say in the UK)... This spec will > almost certainly be patent encumbered, and, as they have done frequently > in the past, will alter their shipped products features away from the > public specification so that document owners' become locked-in to > Microsoft's own software for continued access. And consequently they > no-longer really "own" their data, MS do. > > Al > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
