Question

For some days now I’ve been battling with printing XPS to file without the dialog.
I’ve read posts on the matter in CodeGuru and by Feng Yuan (MSDN), along with many discussion topics here and I am still lost.

Specifically my scenario is that I have a 3rd party API that I must use, and it prints to the default printer (say Microsoft XPS Document Writer). I want to be able to “apply” a filename prior to the printing procedure, and of course not to have dialog.

I’ve tried working with WinDDK – XPSDRV and LOCALMON samples but wasn’t able to figure out exactly how to manipulate the code to achieve my goals. (or even fully understand if I need a new printer driver or a new port type)

Answer 1

You will delete filters in pipeline xml and also related dll’s in inf file. But yet, as I did, i guess you will face problem of printing canvas (graphics). I wasn’t able to convert / transform this canvas to glyphs to get the contents of it.

If you had further issues, let me know

Kind Regards