New rival of PDF format

The recent appearance of the Silverlight application, capable of playing online video formats, is considered a potential tool by Microsoft to overwhelm the Flash solution. At the same time, the giant is running silently with the portable document format (PDF) technology that is extremely popular with Adobe Systems.

For more than a decade, the PDF standard is the most popular method of storing and exchanging electronic documents, from text-to-graphic documents to regular character texts that are easily readable on any any computer The important thing to do with the popularity of PDFs is to be able to transfer to any printer without the need for advanced control software, or user concerns about garbled or displayed text. graphics are misleading.

But with the special XML paper standard, or XPS for short, is Microsoft's new competitive solution for PDF, Redmond's software is produced and provided free to both individual and group users. Professional printing and publishing.

In the middle of April 2006, Microsoft officially released an application that combines XPS reading and document creation, which is downloaded here. The software is compatible on Windows XP with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003.

Furthermore, XPS is built into Vista, which means that users can open and print XPS documents in Internet Explorer 7.0 and create XPS documents from any federated application. Any task through a simple operation is to select the print command to XPS.

Some independent supporters claim that the XPS standard can also be licensed for potential software for free along with invincible hardware partners in the IT domain.

Microsoft also claims some technical advantages of XPS. First of all, XPS uses XML extensible markup file compression techniques to make XPS documents more easily searchable and processed by external applications. XPS is also said to show better color screens and images than other technologies, including PDF. Finally, XPS responds to both file formats and printer language similar to the Printer Command Language command standard, which was developed by HP, and PostScript developed by Adobe. That said, Microsoft allows it to speed up printing times.

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