Package Publish Print

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Package! Publish! Print!

• Brian Adelberg
• Digital Document Solutions
• Software Development Lead
• Microsoft Corporation

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Session Outline

• Printing
• Printer Pipeline
• Asynchronous Printing Notification
• Packaging
• File Format Definitions
• Developer Scenarios
• Package Overview
• Publishing
• XPS new Publishing Format
• Developer Scenarios
• XPS Overview

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Session Goals

• Demonstrate new technologies in .NET 3.0 that
  deliver new ways to distribute data
• Explore these technologies and show how they
  apply to future products
• Brief technical overview of the new technologies

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PrintingTraditional Data Distribution
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Packaging
Application Data
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Electronic Publishing
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Printing

• Print Filter Pipeline
• Asynchronous UI Notification

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Print Filter Pipeline

• New print driver model in Window Vista
• XPS Document spool file
• Quality
• Archiving
• Easy to interpretation
• Extensible
• Provide clear interfaces for plug-ins
• Third parties can improve print quality
• Flexible
• Compatibility with Win32 and .NET 3.0 applications

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XPSDrv Filter Pipeline Architecture
.NET 3.0 App
Win32 App
SpoolerProcess
Filter Pipeline Process
ApplicationProcess
Version 3Driver
Filter Pipeline
Config Module/Plug-in
XPS
Filter 1
Filter PipelineManager
ConversionRender Module
FPConfigXML
Filter N
PropertyBag
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Asynchronous UI Notification

• Bi-directional
• Data agnostic
• Extensible
• More Control
• Works across machine boundaries
• It is asynchronous

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Asynchronous Notification
Print Spooler service
Application
Printing component
Reply Notification
SENDER
SENDER
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Printing Developer Scenarios

• Print Preview
• Color Correction
• Archiving
• Legal Compliance
• Print Monitoring and Management

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Packaging

• Provides foundation of a file format
• Described in the Open Packaging Conventions
  Specification v0.9
• Usable by any application
• Multiple implementations underway
• XPS Document
• Office 2007 Open XML formats

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More than just Zip

• Allows for related collections of files
• Provides means to identify file types
• Provides Digital Signing
• Provides a basis for Rights Management

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Custom File Formats

• Data can be logically separated into files
• Relationship tree organizes data
• Content Types identify data types

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Custom File Formats

• Take advantage of common package services
• E.g. core properties, digital signatures
• Packages can contain multiple formats
• Interleaving provides simultaneous production and
  consumption

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XML Paper Specification (XPS)

• Interoperability of independently created
  software and hardware systems.
• Usable by any application
• Human Readable
• Can be developed with access to common PKZIP and
  XML libraries

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Developer Scenarios

• Any .NET 3.0 Visual tree can be serialized as XPS
• Any application that can print can generate Xps
  using the Xps Document Writer
• Packaging can be used to generate multi-format
  documents

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Xps Overview
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Fixed Page
Glyphs
Paths
Text
Gradient Brush
Image Brush
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Conclusions

• Printing-Traditional means to distribute data
• We empower developers by allowing more hooks into
  the printing process.
• Other Developers can cooperatively extend
  printing functionality
• Allow better user experience by providing better
  methods to communicate with the driver
• Packaging Improve on traditional methods of
  electronic distribution
• Relationships allow for file association
• Digital Signatures and Rights Management improve
  security
• File Content types allow for type identification
  for easier consumption
• Publishing XPS provides easy way to
  electronically distribute paginated data
• Wide distribution of viewing software (XPS Viewer
  )
• Ease of production with .NET 3.0 and legacy
  applications
• Open specification makes XPS available to everyone