Printing to XPS

Any SyntaxEditor document content can be printed out to XPS format with a few lines of code.

What is XPS?

XPS means XML Paper Specification and is a royalty-free document format created by Microsoft to compete with PDF. It is vector-based and supports device and resolution independence.

WPF has built-in support for XPS via several of its controls and classes in the System.Printing assembly.

Sample Code

This code prints the editor's content to an XPS file:

FixedDocument document = editor.PrintSettings.CreateFixedDocument(editor);
XpsDocument xpsd = new XpsDocument(dialog.FileName, FileAccess.Write);
XpsDocumentWriter xw = XpsDocument.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(xpsd);
xw.Write(document);
xpsd.Close();

Note that it first creates a standard WPF FixedDocument and then uses that to write out to an XPS file.