Thanks to its open architecture, ADAM has proven its capability to adopt swiftly to support a standard to come, the XPS, what stands for XML Paper Specification.
ADAM’s provider model allows third party developers to co-engineer on emerging opportunities. As for XPS , ADAM software joined forces with the Belgian company NiXPS (www.nixps.com) to build an XPS-engine for ADAM. The 'NiXPS Library v2.0' widens the scope in which ADAM can handle data. Thumbnails of XPS files are shown in ADAM, the previewing of XPS files starts here. Metadata can be read by ADAM when importing. ADAM even handles a smooth conversion of XPS files to Adobe PDF.
Document Experience
In Windows Vista, you can easily create a document in a paginated, fixed-layout format. An XML Paper Specification (XPS) Document is a page-by-page view of the document's content as it would be printed. In other words, it turns on-screen content into true electronic paper.
The XPS Document Viewer comes with Windows Vista and is also available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The XPS Document Viewer allows you to open and read XPS Documents without using the original authoring application. You can also use the XPS Document Viewer to view and apply digital signatures to XPS Documents. The XPS Document Viewer is a Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)-enabled application so that any XPS Document protected with Windows RMS can be authenticated by the viewer.
2007 Microsoft Office system applications can create XPS Documents from within the application, making it very simple to create XPS Documents from applications you are already used to using. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer can also be used by any Windows-compatible application to easily create an XPS Document. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer is a print-to-file converter that creates XPS Document files.
more info on XPS can be found at www.microsoft.com