Example: create XPS and add hyperlink using NiXPS SDK A customer asked me for a code sample to illustrate the creation of an XPS document, and the ability to make content link to a hyperlink.

It might be of interst to others, so I am posting it on the blog.
This sample works with NiXPS SDK 2.6.6, and uses .NET.

First: create an XPS package with a document:

NOPackage lPackage=NOPackage.createPackage(1,"out.xps");

Now: create a page and add content using the document model.
We do this by getting the root FixedPage, create a Canvas inside, and store a Glyphs element which can hold a string of text.

{
 NOPage lPage=lPackage.getDocument(0).createPage();
 NOXFixedPage lContent=lPage.getFixedPage();
 lContent.intialize(8.3*96,11.7*96); // A4: 210x297mm or 8.3x11.7inch
 NOXCanvas lCanvas=lContent.createCanvas(0);
 lCanvas.intialize();
 NOXGlyphs lGlyphs=lCanvas.createGlyphs(0);

We also need to create and supply a NOFont to be used. We load this up from disk, where we have stored Arial.ttf, an opentype font we would like to use.
We then fill the Glyphs.

 NOFont lFont=lPage.addFont("../testfiles/Arial.ttf");
 NOString lURI = new NOString("/" + lFont.getPartName());
 lGlyphs.intialize(20, lURI.getHandler(), 300, 50);
 lGlyphs.setFill(new NOString("#FF000000").getHandler());
 lGlyphs.setUnicodeString(new NOString("Take me to http://nixps.com").getHandler());

Next: the link. We name the Glyphs, and add a NavigateURI attribute which gives us the intented behaviour to link to a website.

 lGlyphs.setName(new NOString("page_1").getHandler());
 lGlyphs.setFixedPageNavigateUri(new NOString("http://www.nixps.com").getHandler());
}

Now we're done. So all left is to write out the file and clean-up.

// write out and close
lPackage.writePackageToFile("out.xps");
NOPackage.destroyPackage(ref lPackage);

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Our SDK can be a great part of a solution for this, if you go over XPS.

Here is a great article that outlines how you can go from XAML with databinding to XPS with WPF.  ¶ 09:48 0 Comments