Microsoft XPS Document Writer

[witan]

I am running Win-XP pro SP2 on my computer.
I discovered today that a "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" has suddenly
appeared in my "Printers and Faxes". I did not install it! A process
called "PresentationFontCache.exe" was also seen in Task Manager
"Processes". I stopped the process and it has not appeared again, even
on full rebooting . The exe file, along with several other apparently
related files (names starting with Presentation) also exist on my
computer. Google search tells me the XPS Document Writer and the
Presentation*.* files are part of Vista. Can someone please tell me
how they got installed on my XP system? However, as far as I can see,
they are not creating any problem.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

This took me less than five minutes to find.

Microsoft Office Document Image Writer is also part of MS Office 2003 and
2007.
http://support.microsoft.com/search...&ast=3&ast=4&ast=7&ast=10&ast=12&mode=a&adv=1

PresentationFontCache.exe is also part of .NET Framework 3.0.

<quote>
Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache Service. Service found by
default in Windows Vista, but also found on Windows XP SP2 PCs and Windows
2003 servers where the .NET Framework 3.0 application development
environment has been installed (via a Windows Update or by an application
which needs it). Windows Presentation Foundation, previously called WinFX,
is the graphical subsystem of the .NET Framework 3.0, an essential component
of Windows Vista, and is the default method of rendering information and
visual effects on the screen in Windows Vista. In Windows XP/2003 it is
only used when a developer has specifically developed an application using
the .NET Framework. As per Microsoft’s own description, this particularly
service, PRESENTATIONFONTCACHE.EXE, "optimizes performance of Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications by caching commonly used font
data". In other words, this service preloads into memory all the fonts that
are regularly used both by Windows and the programs you regularly run so
that when information is being displayed, the speed of output to the screen
is optimal because the fonts being used by the information being displayed,
are available instantly from memory rather than from the hard disk.

Recommendation :
Leave alone to ensure optimal performance of the displaying of information.
In Windows Vista this service automatically starts up at boot up as the
whole of Vista is developed in the .NET Framework 3.0. In Windows XP/2003,
the default startup mode of this service is Manual – if a program loads
which uses the .NET Framework 3.0, then this service will be started
automatically as needed.
<quote>
from...
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_p.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[witan]

This took me less than five minutes to find.

Microsoft Office Document Image Writer is also part of MS Office 2003 and
2007.http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID=1033&...

PresentationFontCache.exe is also part of .NET Framework 3.0.

<quote>
Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache Service. Service found by
default in Windows Vista, but also found on Windows XP SP2 PCs and Windows
2003 servers where the .NET Framework 3.0 application development
environment has been installed (via a Windows Update or by an application
which needs it). Windows Presentation Foundation, previously called WinFX,
is the graphical subsystem of the .NET Framework 3.0, an essential component
of Windows Vista, and is the default method of rendering information and
visual effects on the screen in Windows Vista. In Windows XP/2003 it is
only used when a developer has specifically developed an application using
the .NET Framework. As per Microsoft's own description, this particularly
service, PRESENTATIONFONTCACHE.EXE, "optimizes performance of Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications by caching commonly used font
data". In other words, this service preloads into memory all the fonts that
are regularly used both by Windows and the programs you regularly run so
that when information is being displayed, the speed of output to the screen
is optimal because the fonts being used by the information being displayed,
are available instantly from memory rather than from the hard disk.

Recommendation :
Leave alone to ensure optimal performance of the displaying of information.
In Windows Vista this service automatically starts up at boot up as the
whole of Vista is developed in the .NET Framework 3.0. In Windows XP/2003,
the default startup mode of this service is Manual - if a program loads
which uses the .NET Framework 3.0, then this service will be started
automatically as needed.
<quote>
from...http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_p.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Thank you for the info. It certainly helped. "NET Framework 3.0
application development environment" was installed on my computer by
Windows update, most probably on 7 Feb 2007, but this is the first
time I have seen the "PresentationFontsCache.exe" in Taskmanager, or
the "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" in Printers and Faxes. The info in
your reply has reassured me that these are nothing to worry about, and
I would leave it at that.
Regards
witan

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I would NOT have any of that .net crap on my machine if AutoCAD LT 2007
didn't need it. ;-) I seem to have .NET Framework 2.0 which includes
v1.0.3705, v1.1.4322 and v2.0.50727, but no 3, so I do not have
PresentationFontCache.exe.

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

Office Document Image Writer is NOT the same thing as XPS Document Writer -
they serve different purposes.

Office Document Image Writer allows you to "print" and create an Office
Image document. XPS Document Writer creates a file that can be viewed using
the XPS Document Viewer or sent directly to a printer capable of printing
XPS documents directly (not many of those yet!). XPS stands for XML Paper
Specification - see http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx.

Office Document Image Writer comes with some versions of MS Office. The XPS
Document Writer is included in .Net Framework 3.0, which is available for
Windows XP from Windows Update and may have been installed automatically,
depending on how you have Windows Update configured.

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Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.