I'm a developer of WPF application and I should to apply a design of application, created by designed in PSD format. But I even can't imagine what should I do at first time. How to import some element from PSD to my application? Thanks
Expression Blend supports importing PSDs.
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I was toying with the idea of switching over to using XAML based icons instead of PNG-based icons, in a Visual Studio-based WPF project.
I can create reasonable and decent icons with Expression Design. but I don't get how the workflow from Expression Design to Visual Studio is supposed to work. I can export to a temporary file in WPF resource dictionary format, and then cut and paste into an actual resource dictionary in my project. I suppose. But that's getting really tedious.
How are you SUPPOSED to do this? (Export from Expression Design into a visual studio project).
fwiw, Expression Blend seems unusable for creating icons. It just doesn't play well with canvases. And Expression Design does have horrifying shortcomings and limitations. But I'd rather use a tool that's built to generate ARTWORK, rather than UI.
Is there a way to do this, and use use PACK URI's, since the project is currently heavily pack-uri based.
I think the piece I'm missing is there doesn't seem to be a standardized XAML format for image files.
Any tips appreciated.
Using Blend to create icons was always problem. I don't know how to make it simple but i could suggest a third party application for icons.. you can get it free here... It was Syncfusion's Metro studio where you get thousands of icons and you can export as well as png and xaml path... Its it a pre designed icons you can make use of it..
What is the best approach to design WPF application based on design template in PSD format?
Are there some special programs to use or is the best way to take a part by part from the original PSD format and design it manually ?
My biggest concern is how to hit the original gradient brushes and colors.
Expression Blend can convert photoshop files to XAML.
See: http://expressioniq.com/?p=965
However, this is a licensed product.
I have a few images in EPS format which I would like to use in my WPF application. Is this possible?
If not, is there a way to convert them to XAML so I can use them directly in WPF? I don't have a budget for Expression Design or Adobe Illustrator, and there are only a few images to convert.
You can use Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/. It will allow you to import EPS file, but you'll need to have GhostScript installed for that. Inkscape uses SVG format and will allow you to export from SVG to XAML.
Is it possible to import WMF (Windows Metafile) or any other vector based file into a silverlight project?
You can use Paste2Xaml to convert WMF/EMF to XAML
http://www.wpf-graphics.com/Paste2Xaml.aspx
And (from the same source) ViewerSvg to convert SVG to XAML
http://www.wpf-graphics.com/ViewerSvg.aspx
Also, for SVG, InkScape has a XAML export feature and there's a XAML export plugin for Adobe Illustrator somewhere, for WMF, Microsoft Expression Graphics Designer (what a short name) is supposed to be able to import WMF and export XAML, but I haven't used those myself.
You may want to have a look at free Silverlight Contrib project at codeplex. It comes with control to display WMF and EMF files.
Inkscape can import wmf and export xaml: http://www.inkscape.org.
I don't know of a direct way, but I've definitely transformed SVG into XAML successfully before. See this brief guide.
Can Windows Presentation Foundation read/write WMF/EMF files without having to use WinForms Interop or Win32.
If it does not, what is the reason?
A quick search on MSDN reveals a thread containing a post by Peggi Goodwin, a PM at Microsoft:
WPF does not support the EMF and WMF image formats. These formats are more susceptible to security vulnerabilities than other image formats, so we do not intend to support them.
I did it !!!
I'm using ComponentOne's WPF chart in my real code but to keep the example simple I just did a button. But it DOES work on Complex wpf widgets. Fonts, Transparency, AntiAlias etc. everything works. And I can paste into Word and change labels on charts etc.
Basically I decimate the XAML to XPS then import it back into XAML.
Then I used an open source project that converts XAML to WMF called XAMLToys.
XAMLToys would fail 99% of the time because you cannot serial complex XAML objects
http://softronix.com/download/WpfToWmfClipboard.zip
Big kudos to these two projects
http://xamltoys.codeplex.com/
http://khason.net/blog/converting-fixeddocument-xpsdocument-too-to-flowdocument/