XamlXporter for Illustrator

New Post: Active Project?

CleverHuman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:15:35 GMT

Based on the number of replies you've got, I think you are right.

I'd be interested in doing some work on it if there is still active interest. I, personally, am not a fan of Blend. Extending this project to make the Adobe tools better at saving to Xaml would be fantastic.

NEW POST: Vista and Illustrator CS3

cromwellryan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:00:01 GMT

I actually posted out here: http://cromwellhaus.com/files/folders/wpf/entry220.aspx. Feel free to download and forward it on. If you have any troubles just reply back here and I'll do what I can.

NEW POST: Vista and Illustrator CS3

kevingoldman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:34:43 GMT

HI There,

I have the same issue with Illustrator 3, but I'm a designer not a developer and not sure what all the VS2005 steps are above. Would it be possible you can forward the new Interop.Illustrator.dll file?

Thanks so much. I look forward to working with XamlXporter!

Thanks,

- Kevin

NEW POST: Vista and Illustrator CS3

cromwellryan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:23:37 GMT

I've resolved the problem on my end. If you have Visual Studio 2005 (or I'd assume 2008/Orcas will work), create a new project (I used Console C#). Simply Add Reference, Select COM Tab, and locate the Adobe Illustrator C3 Type Library. Locate the Interop.Illustrator.dll assembly in your projects Debug/Release directory and overwrite the version in the XamlXporter directory.

NEW POST: Active Project?

cromwellryan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:25:50 GMT

This project no longer seems active. Is that the case?

NEW POST: Vista and Illustrator CS3

pentian — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:23:17 GMT

Hi there,

I would love to get this working with Illustrator CS3 and Vista. Right now I get a COM exception :
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {57941AC1-D5AA-4FDC-9C39-B7AC411E031A} failed due to the following error: 80040154.

Cheers,
Tian

CREATED ISSUE: Locale specific formatting of floating points

eAlex79 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:06:55 GMT

Hi! I use a german language version of Windows and the exporter does wrong on writing floating point numbers in the right format (in Germany we write f.e. 1.200.342,00 or 4000,00 but never 4,000.00). So I changed the conversion routines to use a specific NumberFormatInfo object which sets the decimal point to "." and the grouper to "" and changed all writes to the stream with .ToString(theformatinfo). Attached is the code of Exporter.Core. I roughly tested it, don't shoot me if something is wrong ;) x x Alex. x

Developer Forum: RE: Issue running on Vista/Illustrator

pavanpodila — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:44:12 GMT

I think it has to do with the installation of Illustrator. If installed properly, the COM Type Library should be available. Also make sure you using the CS2 COM Type Library. There could be problems with earlier versions as I haven't tested against those.

Developer Forum: Issue running on Vista/Illustrator

KeithP — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:15:06 GMT

One of our designers is having a problem getting this to work. I am thinking he may have a setup/install issue with one of the apps. Any information pertaining to this would be greatlty appreciated. Error: Unable to cast COM object of type "Illustrator.ApplicationClass" to interface type "Illustrator._Application". This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface failed because no such interface supported.

Developer Forum: RE: Illustrator CS2 COM Type Library

pavanpodila — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:51:23 GMT

Hi Jay, Yes the app expects Illustrator to be present. I will probably do some checks in the next version to see if AI is installed and notify user accordingly. Pavan

CREATED RELEASE: 0.2 Alpha

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

- Re-designed Exporter.Core and much simplified - Output XAML is formatted - Options for choosing a different root-tag (Canvas, DrawingBrush)

Developer Forum: Illustrator CS2 COM Type Library

jaybuffet — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:31:42 GMT

Where is this located ? Do I need to have Illustrator installed to run this?

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pavanpodila — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:41:55 GMT

What is this?

A script for exporting Adobe Illustrator artwork in the WPF/XAML format. The script is written in C#/.Net 2.0 using the Illustrator CS2 COM Type Library. Although it is treated as a script in Illustrator, it is also a stand-alone application.

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Having the script in C#/.Net will make it easier to add support for exporting more Illustrator objects.
Here is the initial [url:blog post|http://pavanpodila.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9C9E888164859398!172.entry] that describes this tool.

Usage Instructions

Download the XamlXporter_Binary.zip file.
Unzip the contents. Following files are contained in it: [image:zip_files.png]
Run the Exporter.UI.exe
Start Adobe Illustrator CS2 and load some illustrator artwork
At this point you can go back to the Exporter and click on [image:export_button.png] button on the toolbar
Once the operation completes you should see the XAML in the top part of the window and the preview at the bottom.
The Exporter uses whatever artwork is currently active inside Illusrator. If you have made any changes to it or have switched to a different file, you can click on [image:export_button.png] button to re-export. The XAML and the preview will update accordingly.

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CREATED ISSUE: How to obtain information for envelope distortion (PluginItem)

pavanpodila — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:20:06 GMT

In order to support the Envelope Distortion feature, we need to know how the PluginItem object can be used. The Illustrator CS2 scripting object model exposes it as a PluginItem but the object is too generic to query for any path information. This is a brick wall right now.

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pavanpodila — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:16:33 GMT

What is this?

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pavanpodila — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:06:04 GMT

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pavanpodila — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:56:47 GMT

What is this?

Having the script in C#/.Net will make it easier to add support for exporting more Illustrator objects. Here is the initial [url:blog post|http://pavanpodila.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9C9E888164859398!172.entry]
that describes this tool.

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pavanpodila — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:39:33 GMT

What is this?

Having the script in C#/.Net will make it easier to add support for exporting more Illustrator objects.
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CREATED RELEASE: 0.1 Alpha

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT

Initial Release of XamlXporter