Microsoft's PDF Rival Draws Interest
 

*Source: PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...article.html)*
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Standards body Ecma International has formed a technical committee to develop a standard built on Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (XPS), a rival file format to Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format (PDF).

According to Ecma's Web site (http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC46.htm), the goal of the TC46 - XPS Technical Committee is to create "a formal standard for an XML-based electronic paper format and XML-based page description language which is consistent with existing implementations of the format called the XML Paper Specification."

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