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Can I print pixel shader effect?

I have a WPF user control that I want to print. I am able to do that with XpsDocumentWriter. Now I would like to apply a pixel shader effect. I can see the effect has been applied on the control. However when I try to print it, the output is the same as the one without the effect. Is it possible to print shader effect? Thanks.

Solution

  • Previous identical questions of StackOverflow have indicated that this is not possible:

    Printing dropshadow and other WPF effects

    The best solution to this problem is to render the UI to a bitmap and then print an Image that refers to the bitmap.