Screenshot of XPS Viewer:
Software Imaging have released a new XPS viewer as a free download. The viewer uses Software Imaging’s own PrintMagicXPS technology to render the XPS documents, which differs from other XPS viewers because it is developed in C++ native code, and therefore has no dependency on .Net or managed code.
Features include:
- High quality rasterizer which leverages Software Imaging’s PrintMagicXPS technology
- Full compliance with the XPS 1.0 specification
- Easy to use and view your XPS documents
- Priority given to the rendering of the first page of a multiple page XPS document
- Multi-threaded application for improved performance on multi-core systems
- Developed in C++ native code, therefore no dependency on .Net and managed code
- Two rendering modes: Aliased and Anti-Aliased
- Zoom and rotate views
- Colour management
Supported Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Prerequisites on Download Page
To run XPS Viewer on Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Window Server 2003 the following components will need to be downloaded and installed:
btw, Windows 7 Will Include New Win32 API’s For XPS, and the new API’s will be:
- XPS API provides creation, manipulation, reading, writing and other services for XPS documents and print streams
- OPC API provides creation, manipulation, reading, writing and other services for Open Packaging Conventions-based file formats, including XPS, OOXML and an increasing number of industrial strength third party file formats
- XPS Print API provides a new entry point for applications to benefit from the enhanced XPS Print Path, irrespective of whether the final output device supports XPS
reference,
http://digitaldocuments.debenu.com/2008/11/12/windows-7-will-include-new-win32-apis-for-xps/
http://digitaldocuments.debenu.com/2008/10/01/new-xps-viewer-from-software-imaging/
http://softwareimaging.com/products-services/XPSViewer/index.asp
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