The XML Paper Specification was developed by Microsoft and ECMA International and released in 2006. XPS offers an open standard for creating, editing, processing and printing fixed-layout documents.

Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification (XPS) alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, ...

Q: I see that Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 offer a new file format called XPS. I have read that it supports the paperless environment, and I wonder if our firm should be using this format as we go ...