Documents and Printing

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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	What's New for Printing in Windows Developer Preview describes the changes made to the print driver model, and briefly introduces the new features of this new model. What's New for Printing in Windows 7 describes the changes made to documents and printing in Windows 7. What's New for Printing in Windows Vista describes the changes made to documents and printing in Windows Vista.
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: Metro style App Printing API Provides Metro style applications 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

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: 5/5/2012

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