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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] does anyone know anything about XPS?

From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
To: Chris Chiasson <chris@chiasson.name>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:27:03 +0100

Chris Chiasson wrote:
> ... the XML paper specification from Microsoft
> 
> do you think it is a rendering target for fo (i.e. fo -> xps )
> 
> or is it more a competitor to / parallel to fo?

XPS targets same market as PDF. It has some nice features which allows 
easier searching and extraction of text then PDF has, but basically it 
is page description format, so it is a result of formatting (or printing 
to XPS driver in Windows).

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