Types Of Documents in WPF..

WPF supports two types of major documents models which provide rich layout support for displaying large amounts of text combined with features like scrolling, pagination and zoom: The "Fixed Document" and the "Flow Document".


FIXED DOCUMENT:The format of fixed document is something like "what you see is what you get". They are XPS (Open XML Paper Specification) based fixed type set documents which are print ready.  

Example Code for Fixed Document:
<Window x:Class="DocumentTypesofWPF.MainWindow"

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

<DocumentViewer>
  <FixedDocument>
    <PageContent>
      <FixedPage>
        <TextBlock>This is an Example of Fixed Document</TextBlock>
      </FixedPage>
    </PageContent>
  </FixedDocument>
</DocumentViewer>
<Window>

FLOW DOCUMENT: A flow document is designed to "reflow content" depending on window size, device resolution, and other environment variables. They are dynamic which can layout the content dynamically based on details such as size of window and resolution.
Example Code for Flow Document:

<FlowDocumentReader x:Class="DocumentTypesofWPF.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

     <FlowDocument>

        <Paragraph>

            <Bold>I'm using Bold tags</Bold>

                   <LineBreak/>

                 This text is not Bold.        

        </Paragraph>

        <List>

            <ListItem>

                <Paragraph>Sam</Paragraph>

            </ListItem>

            <ListItem>

                <Paragraph>Sam2</Paragraph>

            </ListItem>

            <ListItem>

                <Paragraph>Sam3</Paragraph>

            </ListItem>

            <ListItem>

                <Paragraph>Sam4</Paragraph>

            </ListItem>

           <ListItem>

                <Paragraph>Sam5</Paragraph>

            </ListItem>

        </List>

    </FlowDocument>

</FlowDocumentReader>

Some of the things that can be done with Flow Documents:

• Paragraphing.
• Anchoring of images.
• Hyperlinks.
• Text blocks.
• Tables.
• Subscript/Superscript text.
• UIElements (such as Button etc).
• Text effects.

There are three levels of flow document reader controls built-in to the framework:

FlowDocumentPageViewer :Shows document as individual pages, and allows user to adjust zoom level.

Example Code :
<FlowDocumentPageViewer x:Name="flowdocviewer"   x:Class="FlowDocumentWpf.MainWindow"        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Height="350" Width="525">
    <FlowDocument x:Name="flowdoc" Background="Yellow" Foreground="Black">
        <Paragraph x:Name="para1" FontSize="12">
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        </Paragraph>
    </FlowDocument>
</FlowDocumentPageViewer>

FlowDocumentScrollViewer : Simply displays the entire document and provides a scroll bar. Like a web page 

Example Code :
<FlowDocumentScrollViewer x:Name="flowdocviewer"   x:Class="FlowDocumentWpf.MainWindow"        x:Class="FlowDocumentWpf.MainWindow"        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

Height="350" Width="525">

    <FlowDocument x:Name="flowdoc" Background="Yellow" Foreground="Black">

        <Paragraph x:Name="para1" FontSize="12">

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        </Paragraph>

    </FlowDocument>

</FlowDocumentScrollViewer>

FlowDocumentReader : Combines FlowDocumentScrollViewer and FlowDocumentPageViewer into a single control, and exposes text search facilities.

Example Code :

<FlowDocumentReader x:Name="flowdocviewer"   x:Class="FlowDocumentWpf.MainWindow"        x:Class="FlowDocumentWpf.MainWindow"        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

Height="350" Width="525">

    <FlowDocument x:Name="flowdoc" Background="Yellow" Foreground="Black">

        <Paragraph x:Name="para1" FontSize="12">

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        </Paragraph>

    </FlowDocument>

</FlowDocumentReader >