Getting XPS FixedDocumentSequence from a MemoryStream

Question

I'm using the Spire library to convert a DocX file to an XPS file so that I can display a preview of the document in my Windows Desktop (WPF, C#) application.

The conversion is fine - and I can save the resulting XPS file to a temporary file location. I can then open the XPS file with Packaging.XpsDocument and use GetFixedDocumentSequence to display the XPS document in a DocumentViewer control - all pretty simple so far.

To speed the process, I'd really like to save the XPS to a MemoryStream and just load the XPS from there. I have attempted the following:

FileStream fileStream = File.OpenRead(FileName);
MemoryStream msXps = new MemoryStream();

Spire.Doc.Document doc = new Spire.Doc.Document(fileStream, Spire.Doc.FileFormat.Docx);
doc.SaveToStream(msXps, Spire.Doc.FileFormat.XPS);

var package = System.IO.Packaging.Package.Open(msXps, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

System.Windows.Xps.Packaging.XpsDocument xpsDoc = 
   new System.Windows.Xps.Packaging.XpsDocument(package);

return xpsDoc.GetFixedDocumentSequence();

I have copied and pasted what I have as a test function right now - I have removed using statements for the purposes of this. My example compiles and I get the following error:

System.Windows.Xps.XpsPackagingException: 'ReachPackaging_PackageUriNull'

It appears that I can also pass the compression type to the XpsDocument ctor, and I can pass a Uri - but in this case there is no Uri - the Xps document is in memory and is not backed by any physical store.

Of course, I can keep using a temporary file, but it feels like there should be no need to touch the disk for this conversion.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '21 at 13:28

You can use the .NET XpsDocument and PdfSharp and add PackageUri to the package

using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            System.IO.Packaging.Package package = System.IO.Packaging.Package.Open(memoryStream, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
            
            // ...

            var packageUri = new Uri("memorystream://myXps.xps");
            PackageStore.AddPackage(packageUri, package);
            XpsDocument doc = new XpsDocument(package, CompressionOption.SuperFast, packageUri.AbsoluteUri);

            XpsConverter.Convert(doc, filePath, 0);

            package.Close();

        }

Don't forget to call `PackageStore.RemovePackage(packageUri, package);` — marbel82, Sep 29 '22 at 08:14

Getting XPS FixedDocumentSequence from a MemoryStream

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