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Wictor Wilén

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) - SharePoint 2010 | Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - SharePoint Server MVP | Author

XPS soon as a formal ECMA standard

Posted at 2007-06-30 12:49 by Wictor Wilén in Microsoft Office , XPS with 3 comments.

ECMA International has started a technical committee, TC46 - XML Paper Specification (XPS), to "produce a formal standard for an XML-based electronic paper format". One of the points in the TC46 programme is to consider a submission of the XPS format as an ISO standard.

This is really good news to all users of the XPS format and is really vital if XPS is going to be able to compete with the PDF format (which already is an ISO standard, ISO 19005-1:2005/ISO/DIS 32000).

TC45 - Office Open XML Formats, the XML based format used in Office 2007 is currently in the ISO approval process and if all the ISO members approve of it, as ISO/IEC 29500, then XPS will probably have a good chance in the possible ISO process. Office Open XML and XPS share a lot of common grounds, such as the way the documents are packaged.

You can read more about the XPS format in my Dissecting XPS series.

Comments and trackbacks

#  Reactions on the XPS standardisation by Trackback
Screenshot from websnpr Since the news broke out that XML Paper Specification was submitted to ECMA International bloggers and authors has gone wild, here is a collection of reflections and reactions on it. Most reactions co...
#  Other ISO PDF Standards by Leonard Rosenthol
Screenshot from websnpr There are 10 other PDF standards from ISO that you forgot about... ISO 15930-1:2001 (PDF/X-1 & PDF/X-1a:2001) ISO 15930-2:2003 (PDF/X-2:2003) ISO 15930-3:2002 (PDF/X-3:2002) ISO 15930-4:2003 (PDF/X-1a:2003) ISO 15930-5:2003 (PDF/X-2:2003) ISO 15930-6:2003 (PDF/X-3:2003) ISO 15930-7:2007 (PDF/X-4) ISO 15930-8:2007 (PDF/X-5) ISO 24517-1:2007 (PDF/E-1) In addition, 19005-2 (PDF/A-2) is currently in development and PDF/UA is currently an AIIM initiative due to become an ISO standard. Leonard Rosenthol ISO Project Editor, 24517 & 19005
#  Re: other ISO Standards by Wictor Wilén
Screenshot from websnpr Thanks Leonard, I have not looked into it that much but all these standards on PDF and it's subset - doesn't it make it really confusing?
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