Today we launched Beta 1 of what we are calling the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack. If you go to our viewer page you will notice that there are now two links - one to the current viewer built on WinFX and the other to the new XPS Essentials Pack Beta 1. Mahmood from the XPS Essentials team posted an entry on the XPS team blog, so go there and get important links for support and feedback. The XPS essentials pack contains:
- A standalone viewer that runs on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 SP4 (Vista support will be coming in later Betas). Key things about this viewer: It is a stand-alone app (does not run inside IE), uses GDI+ for rendering, it is not built on WinFX so the overall footprint of the install is smaller and it supports Windows 2000.
- Shell extensions so that you can view and update XPS properties in Windows Explorer
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