Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

28.7. Introducing the Documents API

WPF ships with many controls that allow you to capture or display simple blurbs of textual data, including Label, TextBox, TextBlock, and PasswordBox. These controls are useful, but some WPF applications require the use of sophisticated, highly formatted text data, similar to what you might find in an Adobe PDF file. The Documents API of WPF provides such functionality; however, it uses the XML Paper Specification (XPS) format rather than the PDF file format.

You can use the Documents API to construct a print-ready document by leveraging several classes from the System.Windows.Documents namespace. Here you will find a number of types that represent pieces of a rich XPS document, such as List, Paragraph, Section, ...