NiXPS Powerful cross-platform XPS tools …

        NiXPS
        Powerful cross-platform XPS tools


        NiXPS demonstrates full flexibility for digital print
                  workflows at drupa 2008
Düsseldorf, Germany; Lochristi, Belgium, May 29, 2008 - NiXPS, pioneer in delivering cross-
platform XPS solutions, is showing how to implement a fully flexible workflow for digital print
production at drupa. Next to the latest versions of it's products NiXPS View and NiXPS Edit,
NiXPS is showing how easy it is for other vendors to implement XPS support based on its
powerful viewing and editing technology.

The growing adoption of Windows Vista is increasing the adoption of the XPS format. The recent
announcement of Microsoft to fully integrate XPS support in it's next update of Microsoft Office,
will accelerate this. For these users, delivering XPS for print has quite a few advantages: what
they see on screen is what they will get in print, it's easy to create from any Windows Vista
Machine and...it's available for free.

Delivering cross-platform XPS conversion, viewing and editing power for end-users...
So what to do if customers start supplying you with XPS files?
NiXPS View provides basic cross-platform visualization tools such as zoom and scroll allowing for
full XPS inspection on any platform. NiXPS Edit goes beyond cross-platform viewing, offering
advanced, XPS conversion, editing and document manipulation. It is an interactive XPS viewing
and editing application built around four main functional areas:

    ·    Document manipulation
    ·    Object editing
    ·    Text editing
    ·    Variable data handling

NiXPS Edit allows digital print providers to maintain a native XPS workflow and take full advantage
of XPS specific features such as support for Microsoft's HD photo format for higher quality output
of photos for photo albums. Through its object and text editing technology NiXPS Edit adds
advanced last minute correction capabilities. With its variable data features you can natively
create direct mail pieces or other personalized documents from one and the same XPS file.

Also, an increasing number of vendors in the digital print market is starting to see the need for
reliable XPS support. Recent announcements of EFI and Ultimate support the fact that graphic arts
vendors see the value of direct XPS support for specific digital print applications such as direct
mail, photo book production and others.

... and digital print solution vendors.
As pioneer in XPS technology, NiXPS offers various opportunities for software vendors to provide
XPS support to their customers. The same powerful functionality the NiXPS desktop application
has to offer is available as a scalable software library. This library is available in three versions:

    ·    NiXPS Processing SDK
    ·    NiXPS Library SDK
    ·    NiXPS OEM SDK

The NiXPS Processing SDK allows developers to implement XPS viewing and conversion on Mac and
PC. The NiXPS Library SDK adds all NiXPS' advanced editing capabilities to that. As an industries
first the NiXPS OEM SDK provides a plug-in architecture to its NiXPS Edit application making it
really easy for developers to just add their technology to the user-friendly environment of the
NiXPS Edit application. All versions of the library are cross-platform, and can be used directly with
the provided C/C++ API. NiXPS also provides the necessary api's to use the library in a .NET and
Java environment. A full feature comparison of the different NiXPS development libraries is
available on http://www.nixps.com/matrix_lib.html.

With these various NiXPS Library levels, developers can deploy the XPS functionality they need in
a flexible, cost effective way and with a quick time to market.

NiXPS at drupa
NiXPS will be showing its products in the drupa innovation park, Hall 7, area 7.0 D. Specifically for
drupa NiXPS offers a 10% discount on its desktop products. This drupa special is valid until the end
of June.

About XPS
Created by Microsoft, XPS is an open, XML-based file format that serves as default page
description and print spooling technology in Microsoft's latest operating system Windows Vista.
Through Windows Vista's print architecture millions of users can easily create XPS files from any
application. Microsoft Vista offers basic XPS viewing capabilities as part of the operating system.
Most modern printers and front ends to high-end digital print production today support XPS. With
these features XPS is an ideal format for document exchange, review and print in enterprise
document and professional digital print environments.

About NiXPS
NiXPS pioneers the XPS revolution. With a strong background in the publishing industry and
extensive experience with document formats, the company is ideally positioned to offer the
technology needed to make XPS usable in professional document management environments. The
NiXPS Library is an independent, cross platform, highly efficient software library to read, modify
and write XPS files. More and more software vendors and integrators are choosing NiXPS Library to
embrace XPS in their offerings. NiXPS Edit is an interactive XPS editor based. It provides users with
unparalleled capabilities to inspect, edit and optimize their XPS files. Software vendors and
integrators can build upon NiXPS Edit to offer their XPS functionality on a compelling, interactive
platform. NiXPS View application offers unmatched, reliable XPS viewing for both Mac & PC. Learn
what XPS can do for you by visiting http://www.nixps.com.

Press Contact NiXPS
P.R. agency Europe
Four Pees
Dorine Vanleke
dorine@fourpees.com
+32 9 330 60 12

P.R. agency US
Helene Smith
smith@helenesmith.com
+1 321 388 6511

NiXPS
Nick De Roeck
Managing Director
nick@nixps.com
+32 479 26 27 19

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