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Documents and Printing

These topics describe the documents and printing features of Windows that enable applications to save, view, and print.

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Topic	Description
What's New for Printing	Windows 8 supports printing for Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML and printing for Windows Store apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML. Windows 8 also includes a new COM-based API that provides full support for Open XPS and access to portions of the new printer drivers that Windows 8 supports. For more information about the new API, see Windows Store app Printing API. The Windows Print Driver Inbox Program makes sure that Windows 8 includes support for a high percentage of the popular printers.
XPS Documents	Information about the XPS Document API an XPS Digital Signatures. XPS Document API The XPS Document API is a native Windows API that supports the XPS OM. The XPS Document API was introduced in Windows 7 and can be used in user-mode programs and XPSDrv printer drivers. XPS Digital Signature API XPS Digital Signatures enable document signing, verification of the signer's identity, and indication of whether an XPS document has changed since it was signed.
Printing	Information about the printing features supported by Windows. These features include: Windows Store app Printing API Provides Windows Store appsWindows Store apps with an interface that allows the management of the PrintDocument package. XPS Print API Provides an interface to the print spooler that applications can use to send XPS documents to a printer. Print Spooler API Provides an interface to the print spooler so that applications can manage printers and print jobs. Print Ticket API Provides applications with functions to manage and convert print tickets. GDI Print API Provides applications with a device-independent printing interface.
Print Schema	The Print Schema and related technologies describe a printer's features and specify the printing preferences of a document to printers and viewing applications. The Print Schema Specification is a downloadable document that contains information about the Print Schema and how to use it in documents and printing. The online information that is found in this section is provided for your information only and might not accurately reflect the current version of the Print Schema Specification. Refer to the Print Schema Specification for the most current design information.

Additional resources

The Print Sample sample app demonstrates how to print from a Windows Store app starting with Windows 8. The Print Sample Program illustrates how to print from a Windows program for Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows.

To learn about the XPS document options for document applications that are not supported by a Microsoft technology, refer to the XPS Document Technology Showcase.

The features described in this section are for native Windows programming. To use similar features in .NET (managed) programming, see Windows Presentation Foundation Documents.

XPS documents are built on the Packaging API. See the Packaging API, for lower level access to the contents of an XPS document.

Build date: 11/20/2012

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