Update to Windows 7 RC Version of the XPS Rasterization Filter Service Sample
Here are two updates that will help Printer driver developers who are working with the RC version of the XPS Rasterization Filter Service sample.
1. If you are using the RC version of the XPS Rasterization Filter Service sample, it is strongly recommended that you work directly with the WIC bitmap returned from the XPS Rasterization service rather than the calls into WIC to encode each band as a TIFF. The sample calls into WIC for encoding each band were for demonstration purposes only and are not recommended for larger applications because they could be inefficient and difficult.
2. In the sample, the output file consists of a series of per-band TIFFs. Because this file will be a series of complete TIFFs and not a single-page TIFF, opening the file in a viewer will only display the first band of the first page. More details can be found in the bitmaphandler.cpp file that is included in the sample source code.
The Windows 7 RTM version of the sample documentation will include this update. In the meantime, until Windows 7 is released, apply these changes to the sample documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd434895.aspx.
－Seth McEvoy [MSFT], WDK Senior Programming Writer
