[OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight
For those interested in 'live' Silverlight 1.0 applications -- Do It Yourself Ads (DIYads) is online at http://diyads.com.au/ The premise is that vehicle owners can upload photos design an advertisement (using Silverlight) for inclusion in print magazines to help them sell the vehicle. The Help Videos http://diyads.com.au/DIY/DIY030.aspx show how it works, if you don't feel like taking it for a test-drive (sic)... Although the Silverlight 'Ad Builder' is kinda cool; what is more interesting is the behind-the-scenes processing from Xaml 'templates' to Jpeg previews using WPF; then transforming the XPS to PDF snippets which are later stitched together into the actual magazine pages that are sent to press. Note that using WPF classes on the server to render Xaml-to-Jpeg is 'not supported' but it seems to be possible if you are willing to play around a bit to work around the possible memory-leak issues... Adobe was openly hostile when asked for assistance with this project (tried to sell us Flash, of course, and *refused* to provide any tech-support to assist in converting XPS to PDF, despite having the XPS2PDFLib component that can do it) and Microsoft wasn't much help either. We found NiXPS ( http://nixps.com/) to be a great product with very responsive support staff - highly recommend their product if you are interested in XPS/PDF print solutions. Hope it is of interest... --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
RE: [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight
Hi Craig, This looks pretty sweet. Out of interest what was the project lifetime? Cheers, Jordan. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2008 2:36 PM To: listserver@ozsilverlight.com Subject: [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight For those interested in 'live' Silverlight 1.0 applications -- Do It Yourself Ads (DIYads) is online at http://diyads.com.au/ The premise is that vehicle owners can upload photos design an advertisement (using Silverlight) for inclusion in print magazines to help them sell the vehicle. The Help Videos http://diyads.com.au/DIY/DIY030.aspx show how it works, if you don't feel like taking it for a test-drive (sic)... Although the Silverlight 'Ad Builder' is kinda cool; what is more interesting is the behind-the-scenes processing from Xaml 'templates' to Jpeg previews using WPF; then transforming the XPS to PDF snippets which are later stitched together into the actual magazine pages that are sent to press. Note that using WPF classes on the server to render Xaml-to-Jpeg is 'not supported' but it seems to be possible if you are willing to play around a bit to work around the possible memory-leak issues... Adobe was openly hostile when asked for assistance with this project (tried to sell us Flash, of course, and *refused* to provide any tech-support to assist in converting XPS to PDF, despite having the XPS2PDFLib component that can do it) and Microsoft wasn't much help either. We found NiXPS (http://nixps.com/) to be a great product with very responsive support staff - highly recommend their product if you are interested in XPS/PDF print solutions. Hope it is of interest... --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1793 - Release Date: 19/11/2008 8:58 AM --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
Re: [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight
I prototyped the Ad-Builder UI back in January in about a week, for budget approval. 3 person team started in March - prototype was discarded and rebuilt. It's been in testing for a little while before release. Xaml-Jpeg and XPS-PDF were two of the chunkier tasks: the first due to memory issues and the second due to testing with our printers - colour correction; greyscale/newsprint printing and many other issues arose along the way. Adobe originally told us we _could_ use XPS2PDFLib via their 'LiveCycle' product, then turned around and said it wasn't supported - this added at least two months (probably more) to the project in my opinion as we searched-for and implemented an alternative solution (NiXPS). Now on to Silverlight 2.0... On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jordan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Craig, This looks pretty sweet. Out of interest what was the project lifetime? Cheers, Jordan. *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Craig Dunn *Sent:* Thursday, 20 November 2008 2:36 PM *To:* listserver@ozsilverlight.com *Subject:* [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight For those interested in 'live' Silverlight 1.0 applications -- Do It Yourself Ads (DIYads) is online at http://diyads.com.au/ The premise is that vehicle owners can upload photos design an advertisement (using Silverlight) for inclusion in print magazines to help them sell the vehicle. The Help Videos http://diyads.com.au/DIY/DIY030.aspx show how it works, if you don't feel like taking it for a test-drive (sic)... Although the Silverlight 'Ad Builder' is kinda cool; what is more interesting is the behind-the-scenes processing from Xaml 'templates' to Jpeg previews using WPF; then transforming the XPS to PDF snippets which are later stitched together into the actual magazine pages that are sent to press. Note that using WPF classes on the server to render Xaml-to-Jpeg is 'not supported' but it seems to be possible if you are willing to play around a bit to work around the possible memory-leak issues... Adobe was openly hostile when asked for assistance with this project (tried to sell us Flash, of course, and *refused* to provide any tech-support to assist in converting XPS to PDF, despite having the XPS2PDFLib component that can do it) and Microsoft wasn't much help either. We found NiXPS ( http://nixps.com/) to be a great product with very responsive support staff - highly recommend their product if you are interested in XPS/PDF print solutions. Hope it is of interest... --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1793 - Release Date: 19/11/2008 8:58 AM --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
RE: [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight
That is awesome. Sorry we weren't much help. Shane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2008 3:04 PM To: listserver@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Re: [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight I prototyped the Ad-Builder UI back in January in about a week, for budget approval. 3 person team started in March - prototype was discarded and rebuilt. It's been in testing for a little while before release. Xaml-Jpeg and XPS-PDF were two of the chunkier tasks: the first due to memory issues and the second due to testing with our printers - colour correction; greyscale/newsprint printing and many other issues arose along the way. Adobe originally told us we _could_ use XPS2PDFLib via their 'LiveCycle' product, then turned around and said it wasn't supported - this added at least two months (probably more) to the project in my opinion as we searched-for and implemented an alternative solution (NiXPS). Now on to Silverlight 2.0... On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jordan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Craig, This looks pretty sweet. Out of interest what was the project lifetime? Cheers, Jordan. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2008 2:36 PM To: listserver@ozsilverlight.commailto:listserver@ozsilverlight.com Subject: [OzSilverlight] Custom print-ad creation with Silverlight For those interested in 'live' Silverlight 1.0 applications -- Do It Yourself Ads (DIYads) is online at http://diyads.com.au/ The premise is that vehicle owners can upload photos design an advertisement (using Silverlight) for inclusion in print magazines to help them sell the vehicle. The Help Videos http://diyads.com.au/DIY/DIY030.aspx show how it works, if you don't feel like taking it for a test-drive (sic)... Although the Silverlight 'Ad Builder' is kinda cool; what is more interesting is the behind-the-scenes processing from Xaml 'templates' to Jpeg previews using WPF; then transforming the XPS to PDF snippets which are later stitched together into the actual magazine pages that are sent to press. Note that using WPF classes on the server to render Xaml-to-Jpeg is 'not supported' but it seems to be possible if you are willing to play around a bit to work around the possible memory-leak issues... Adobe was openly hostile when asked for assistance with this project (tried to sell us Flash, of course, and *refused* to provide any tech-support to assist in converting XPS to PDF, despite having the XPS2PDFLib component that can do it) and Microsoft wasn't much help either. We found NiXPS (http://nixps.com/) to be a great product with very responsive support staff - highly recommend their product if you are interested in XPS/PDF print solutions. Hope it is of interest... --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.comhttp://mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.4/1793 - Release Date: 19/11/2008 8:58 AM --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.comhttp://mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.nethttp://www.readify.net --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net --- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
