Mike Swanson - Adobe Illustrator to XAML converter

Posted By: scobleizer | Jul 12th, 2005 @ 4:49 PM | 129,595 Views | 31 Comments

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Mike Swanson wanted to use XAML and the new Avalon, but was having trouble getting his Adobe Illustrator files ported over so he wrote his own converter.

This thing is awesome for graphic designers who want to work with developers on UI's!

Anyway, he's releasing it as a free download (he wrote this on nights and weekends). The current version works with Adobe Illustrator CS and CS2 running on Windows. Note that this plug-in is not endorsed, warranted, or supported by Microsoft.

Check out his "eye candy" page where he shows some of the strengths and limitations of his converter.

Mike's blog is here -- he writes about a variety of development-oriented topics.

Download the file here.

Tag: WPF

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Larsenal
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This might be the incentive I needed to start exploring XAML. I use Illustrator all the time for diagrams, mockups and the like, so this will be a nice way to ease into XAML, Avalon, etc.

Nice work, Mike!

Larsenal
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I haven't used Coreldraw in years. Anyone else besides leighsword really like it?

leighsword
LeighSword

not interesting,but it seems All Vector Graph is able to convert to XAML.
waiting for the Flash or CorelDRAW Converter.

Charles
Welcome Change

Nicely done, Mike! I love that fact that you can take a great image, export it to XAML, then give it life by applying transformations (easily) to components of the "picture".

Great work.

C

jujitsu_sickness

Excellent! It's a very smart tool, I'm impressed.

mswanson

mVPstar:

The good news is that it works with version 11, which is also called CS. So, you should be okay!

mswanson

leighsword:

Interestingly, I used CorelDRAW almost exclusively until version 6.0, when I started to work more and more with bitmap graphics (advent of the Internet). Only after I had become accustomed to Photoshop did I look at Illustrator, because it was part of the suite I had purchased.

leighsword
LeighSword

mswanson wrote:

leighsword:

Interestingly, I used CorelDRAW almost exclusively until version 6.0, when I started to work more and more with bitmap graphics (advent of the Internet). Only after I had become accustomed to Photoshop did I look at Illustrator, because it was part of the suite I had purchased.

i don't know can Illustrator export to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML)?you know CorelDRAW 12 can do it.
i think make a XML to XAML converter easy than make a binary to XAML converter.

will

leighsword wrote:

mswanson wrote: leighsword:

Interestingly, I used CorelDRAW almost exclusively until version 6.0, when I started to work more and more with bitmap graphics (advent of the Internet). Only after I had become accustomed to Photoshop did I look at Illustrator, because it was part of the suite I had purchased.

i don't know can Illustrator export to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML)?you know CorelDRAW 12 can do it.
i think make a XML to XAML converter easy than make a binary to XAML converter.

Yes, Illustrator does allow you to export to the SVG format.

There are currently 2 SVG to XAML converters that I know of out there.
SVG2Xaml and XamlConverter