Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

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Silverlight XPS olvasó

VBandi — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:07:21 GMT

Az XPS ugye a Microsoft PDF-e, ha egy mondatban akarjuk megfogalmazni. Itt van egy  Silverlight

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

samcov — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:04:33 GMT

Can we simply use XPS files saved from Word 2007 with this code?

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Delay — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:41:36 GMT

samcov,

I believe that Word 2007 XPS documents do not work by default. I touch on this briefly in the "Introductory Post" I link to above where I first announced the XPS Viewer sample. Basically, the sample supports only the file structure that the XPS Printer Driver outputs because that's what I had to work with. Any variations on the XPS internal document structure would likely require some changes to the code to support. I don't recall exactly whether Word 2007 documents are the same, but I think I remember checking and finding them different.

Hope this helps!

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

samcov — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:11:54 GMT

I tried to create the file using the XPS document writer, but it only outputs a XPS file, and not the additional files you seem to get.

I'm not sure how you created the printer files.

Sam...

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Delay — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT

samcov,

FYI, with the Beta 2 version of the XPS Viewer sample, it is necessary to extract only the font (*.odttf) files and place them alongside the XPS file.

A good workflow (that includes re-ZIPping the XPS files which is often necessary) goes something like: get content you want to view in an application, print it to the XPS Printer Driver, save that output as file Intro.XPS, rename it to Intro.XPS.zip, extract all files to \Intro directory with Windows or other ZIP tool, delete Intro.XPS.zip, create new Intro.XPS.zip file from \Intro directory with Windows or other ZIP tool, rename Intro.XPS.zip to Intro.XPS, copy all *.odttf files from under \Intro to the same location as the new Intro.XPS file, copy Intro.XPS and *.odttf to the \Intro.XPS subdirectory that is part of the XPS Viewer Sample (replacing the existing Intro.XPS file and fonts), run XPS Viewer Sample - and you should see your content instead of the default Intro page.

It's that "easy"! :)

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

samcov — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:17:48 GMT

I thought I posted this, but it hasn't appeared.

Anyway, it worked EXACTLY as you outlined it... Thanks!

It appears that re-zipping is crutial for some reason.

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

jidizhiguang — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:20:11 GMT

It works fine in IIS5.1,but in IIS 6.0 an IIS 7.0 the font does not display, and a downloaderror #4001 occured,Why?

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Delay — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:04:34 GMT

jidizhiguang,

I'll guess that your IIS 6 and 7 configuration is such that *.odttf is not a supported file type for download. You can verify this by trying to download a .odttf file directly from a browser. I expect it to work for your IIS 5.1, but fail from 6 and 7. You should be able to easily fix this by adding *.odttf as a supported file type for download for your IIS 6 and 7 installs.

Hope this helps!

Smaller is better! [A simple step to shrink the download size of Silverlight 2 applications]

Delay's Blog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:50:12 GMT

When putting content on the web, it's important to get that content to the user as quickly as possible.

Read about Silverlight in XPS

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Read a Silverlight book - with Silverlight! [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer adaptation by Laurence Moroney]

Delay's Blog — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:11:24 GMT

At the bottom of the post on migrating SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer to Silverlight Beta 2 , I hinted at

Everything is a link in the chain

Adrian Ford on XPS et cetera — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:05:54 GMT

Or maybe everything is in a cycle... Develop XPS , awesome fixed format document and print stream format

Read about Silverlight… in Silverlight

Me about things... — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:55:17 GMT

Laurence Moroney just published a blog post in which he adapted David Anson's XPS Viewer for Silverlight

Read about Silverlight… in Silverlight

Me about things... — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:55:17 GMT

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re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

hjpavelka — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:55:18 GMT

I convertet some pdf files to xps with the XPS Document writer.

However, If I unzip and re-zip them they stop working! I did not change any content.

Even the regular viewer can not display them anymore - it displays an exception:

System.ArgumentException: The document does not contain a valid FixedDocumentSequence.

MS.Internal.Documents.DigitalSignatureProvider..ctor(Package package)

what is the issue here?

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Delay — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:10:28 GMT

hjpavelka,

Something about how you're rezipping the files seems to be going wrong. What I'm guessing is happening is that the file structure is getting changed when you re-zip - possibly the addition of another directory level at the root, or the absence of the subdirectories. You probably want to compare the contents of the XAP.zip files before and after the re-ZIP process to be sure they're structurally identical. The syntax and default behavior of various ZIP tools is fairly different, so you may need to check the documentation for your particular tool to find out just what settings are needed.

Hope this helps!

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

mrtmrcn — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:10 GMT

i try to open my xps file

create a folder named : Step1.xps

i use print out in Step1.xps folder and named :Step1.xps

extract the fonts ant put it on Step1.xps folder but that's give me an error :XML_MissingRoot

re: Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Delay — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:19:57 GMT

mrtmrcn,

Every time I've gotten a problem report like this so far, it has been solved by re-ZIPping the XPS file. Please see the notes in the post and the comments above for details on how to re-ZIP. If that doesn't work, then something about the XML structure of your file seems to be unusual. The next thing would be to check that the file was generated with the XPS Printer Driver because other techniques are known to produce different file structures that aren't recognized by the sample application.

Hope this helps!

Roadblock in the way of migrating the proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample does not work on Silverlight 2 RTW]

Delay's Blog — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:07:58 GMT

Since the public release of Microsoft Silverlight 2 , I've gotten a few internal and external requests

Fix for Simple XPS Silverlight Viewer for Silverlight 2

Li Chen's Weblog — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:28:22 GMT

Fix for Simple XPS Silverlight Viewer for Silverlight 2