It's Day Nine of our Windows Server 2008 series. We're one-third of the way through our series. Today we will continue on with our look at printing in Windows Server 2008. Our topic today - XML Paper Specification (XPS) Support.
The XML Paper Specification (XPS) defines an open document format that uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) to create a document format that is platform-independent, openly-published and royalty-free. The XPS format consists of XML markup that defines the composition of a document and visual appearance of each page along with rendering rules for displaying or printing the document. XPS Support in Windows Server 2008 provides a new foundation for applications that are based on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) graphics subsystem that was introduced in Windows Vista. XPS Support enhances the print architecture of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 by improving print fidelity and performance while retaining support for the GDI-based print subsystem used in previous version of Windows.
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