War and PDF: Microsoft submits XPS to standards body

[Pinnacle]

Microsoft has announced that it has chartered a new Technical Committee to submit a new standard to the standards-setting body Ecma International. The would-be standard involves "creating an XML-based electronic paper format and page description language that is consistent with existing implementations of Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (XPS)." The group, which goes by the catchy name of Technical Committee 46, will convene next month.



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[Revv23]

an XML stlye pdf could be pretty useful.

[Pinnacle]

yup

[Warship]

And that comes from the company who only released the specs for Excel97.

Laughable

[Shintai]

Anythign that kills PDF is good with me. Its just insane that a PDF reader can use shaders aswell as a tonnes of memory, lame update service along with a running background task to start faster.

I know there is alternatives. But the "default" product should be alot better.