Posted By: scobleizer | Jul 12th, 2005 @ 4:49 PM | 130,143 Views | 31 Comments
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.
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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!
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I haven't used Coreldraw in years.  Anyone else besides leighsword really like it?
leighsword
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not interesting,but it seems All Vector Graph is able to convert to XAML.
waiting for the Flash or CorelDRAW Converter.
Charles
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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
Excellent!  It's a very smart tool, I'm impressed.
mVPstar:

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




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

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