November 28, 2007 -- Artifex® today announced the beta release of "Ghostxps TM". Ghostxps is a new input parser within the Ghostscript family of interpreter technologies.

XPS is a new Page Description Language from Microsoft supporting Microsoft's new "Windows Presentation Network" graphics imaging model within their "Vista" operating system. Ghostxps features direct XPS to raster rendering as well as XPS to PDF conversion. Like all interpreters in the Ghostscript family, Ghostxps is cross-platform and will run on all major operating systems. "Artifex is known as an early implementor of emerging PDL technologies." said Miles Jones, president of Artifex. "Our XPS team has been demonstrating our technologies to printer manufacturers and host-based software applications developers since the end of 2006. With our long track record of success in pursuing new PDL markets, we expect to provide one of the first high-quality solutions available anywhere."

Artifex is a leading core technology provider with the most comprehensive software solution for the embedded printing market. Artifex Ghostscript offers all the major leading Page Distribution Languages (PDLs) including XPS, PDF, Postscript, and PCL, along with award-winning screening technologies, and a combination of fonts compatible with leading printers. No other software vendor offers a solution this complete. Millions of users have benefited from its ability to preview documents on the screen or provide high quality raster for hardcopy or raster file output. In addition, Artifex Ghostscript combines the tools, information and technical support needed in order to meet the reliability and performance requirements of its OEM customers. Artifex Ghostscript has been integrated with over 100 OEM customers' products, including: Oce, Hewlett Packard, Kyocera, and Xerox. Artifex Ghostscript software solution set operates on all major platforms.