• Microsoft launches XPS, a technology similar to PDF which it developed in close cooperation with Global Graphics. Users are for the first time able to create XPS documents when Microsoft Vista is released for corporate use in November 2006.

• Apple releases the first professional workstations based on Intel processors. The Mac Pro looks similar to the G5, its precursor, but it ships with up to 2 quad-core 3.2 GHz Xeon CPU’s.

• Adobe announces the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE), a complete rewrite of their RIP architecture. Instead of relying on PostScript as its core page description language, APPE uses the PDF file format.

 

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