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
