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TC46 - XML Paper Specification (XPS) Upcoming meetings 9-11 July 2008, Redmond, USA 10-12 September 2008, Yokohama, Japan The next conference call is scheduled after the next face-to-face meeting. Activities Highlights from the 1st meeting of TC46, July 23rd, 2007, Cambridge, UK The meeting was attended by 26 people, made up of Ecma staff and representatives from 17 members. Ecma staff explained some of the technicalities of standards development, and the committee reviewed its scope and work items as approved by the Ecma General Assembly. A technical editor was appointed for the development of the XPS standard, and several decisions about working process were made. A meeting schedule was also defined for the next year, with hosts, locations and dates set as accurately as possible. The committee also discussed potential liaisons with other standards groups, including Ecma TC45 (the Office Open XML standard includes the Open Packaging Conventions used by XPS) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 (recently announced as considering standardisation of HD Photo as JPEG XR). TC46 thanks Global Graphics for hosting this meeting. Highlights from the 2nd meeting of TC46, September 27-28, 2007, Tokyo, Japan A framework for the requirements around Print Ticket handling was worked out, and an ad hoc working group created to address the specific issues arising as a result. A second ad hoc working group was created to address those issues where specific colour expertise was required. Both ad hoc WGs held their first meetings to establish action plans for further work. The committee improved their issues tracking list, and reviewed all issues raised to date, ensuring that all are allocated to committee members to develop proposed resolutions. The schedule for development of the text and submission for approval as an Ecma standard was set out. TC46 thanks Fuji Xerox for hosting this meeting. Highlights from the 3rdmeeting of TC46, January 16-18, 2008, Las Vegas, USA Both the Colour and Print Ticket ad hoc working groups met and made progress on their specific areas of interest. The Print Ticket WG has formulated a strategy for resolving the current need for a normative reference to the PrintSchema documentation. A third ad hoc working group was created to explore the business case for the association of 3D data with graphical elements in an XPS document, and to develop a proposal for technical mechanisms to deliver that association. The committee made good progress in resolving a number of issues that had been identified. TC46 thanks Autodesk for hosting this meeting. Working Groups TC46 has set up three ad hoc working groups to address issues in specific areas of the standard:
Liaisons TC46 has formal liaisons with the following standards bodies: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 28: Office equipment ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29: Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34: Document Description and Processing Languages ISO TC 130 WG2: Graphic technology – Prepress data exchange ISO TC 171 : Document management applications Ecma TC45: Office Open XML Formats International Color Consortium Available Documents: All working drafts of the XML Paper Specification Standard are available here. XML Paper Specification presentation, August 2007.
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