by abenedik
8. August 2008 10:40
I am happy to announce that the commercial versions of Ab2d.ReaderSvg and Ab2d.ReaderWmf are available.
The purchase can be done on https://www.ab4d.com/Purchase.aspx.
As rss subscriber I give you 10% launch discount.
For ReaderSvg enter "ReaderSvgRss" as a discount code on the Purchase page. For ReaderWmf enter "ReaderWmfRss"
The discount is valid only until the end of August 2008.
by abenedik
8. July 2008 09:04
Based on great users feedback both svg and metafile importer libraries were improved.
New in Ab2d.ReaderSvg library v1.7:
- Improved reading text - added support for nested tspan elements inside text.
- Fixed reading text-anchor when defined in parent elements.
- Improved reading svg files with missing xmlns declarations.
- Improved performance when reading text. Also now more fonts are rendered correctly.
- Fixed reading embedded images (sometime the bounds of the TextureBrush) were not read correctly.
New in Ab2d.ReaderWmf library v1.4:
- Added support for pen's LineJoin, LineCap and Dash Style.
- Added support for Arc.
- Improved placing text in some metafiles.
- Corrected the width of the lines.
- Correctly use Polyline and Polygon.
New versions are available from www.ab4d.com/Overview2d.aspx.
The commercial versions for both Ab2d.ReaderSvg and Ab2d.ReaderWmf will be available soon - probably in one month time. This makes the published versions the last freely available versions. Both will expire on 31th December 2008.
Thank you to all who have provided feedback on the Ab2d libraries.
by abenedik
4. June 2008 17:00
As promised the commercial version of Ab3d.Reader3ds is available.
The purchase can be done on https://www.ab4d.com/Purchase.aspx.
As rss subscriber I give you 10% launch discount. Just enter "Reader3dsRss" as a discount code on the Purchase page.
The discount is valid only until the end of July 2008.
by abenedik
1. June 2008 00:15
I hope you did not notice that the actual version of Reader3ds has expired today. If you did, I would like to apologize for the inconvenience.
So finally the new version 4.3 is available for download.
This is the last freely available version and will expire on 31th December 2008.
The following is the list of changes:
Fixed bug where camera name or light name is longer than 8 characters (ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.).
Added public static get ExpirationDate - so it is possible to get expiration date without actually creating an instance of Reader3ds (this can already throw expired exception).
Fixed exception when reading 3ds file without any animation keyframe.
The commercial version is already prepared. The version 4.3 is almost the same as the commercial version – the only difference is that it does not contain licensing system (it has the nasty expiration date).
The commercial version should be available at the end of the week. I need to move the site to a new and faster server and then it will be possible to purchase the license (automatically on the new site).
Another great news is that new versions of Ab2d.ReaderSvg and Ab2d.ReaderWmf are also almost prepared and will be published very soon. And until the end of the month commercial versions of both will be available also.
by abenedik
31. March 2008 00:30
A while ago I spoke with Matevz Gacnik (his great blog: www.request-response.com/blog). He just came from MIX08 and told me that Silverlight is hot. Very hot! "You should implement support for it as soon as possible!" he said.
He is Microsoft's MVP. That means his advice should be taken seriously. So I postponed my current work - preparing a commercial version of Reader3ds.
Now I am proud to announce that new version of Paste2Xaml and ViewerSvg support Silverlight.
The following screenshots shows the new ViewerSvg with opened svg file and Export dialog:
Now it is possible to use almost any 2D or 3D drawing application to create user interface elements for Silverlight applications. You can draw it in Adobe® Illustrator®, CorelDRAW®, Inkscape, Microsoft Visio or other vector drawing application, save the work in svg file and use ViewerSvg to convert the drawing into xaml. If the application support save into Windows metafile (wmf or emf) like Autocad, it is possible to use Paste2Xaml to convert the saved metafile into xaml. If it is not possible to save the drawing into svg or metafile you can use copy and paste the drawing into Paste2Xaml. This can be used for example for converting graphs from Excel or WordArt from Microsoft Work into xaml. Also there are already huge internet image libraries that can be a great source for user interface elements (see Links section).
So you can use your favorite drawing application and simply draw the user interface of your WPF or Silverlight application in it.
There are also some other improvements and bug fixes:
New in Paste2Xaml library v1.3:
- Added support for silverlight.
- Added objects tree view with rename option - possible to export elements with name (so they can be manipulated later from the code).
- Added select object with mouse.
New in ViewerSvg library v1.3:
- Added support for silverlight.
- Added object selection with mouse.
- Added export dialog with xaml text and preview tabs.
- Added selecting number of decimals in the exported xaml (useful for optimizing the size of exported xaml).
- Added possibility to export only selected elements.
New in ReaderSvg library v1.6:
- Fixed reading number in exponent format (for example 1.234e-3) in transform element. This fixed the problems when some elements in the read image were placed on the wrong location and with the wrong size.
New in ReaderWmf library v1.3:
- Fixed problems with some wmf files that were imported with some anomalies (lost details)
New version of all the Ab2d tools and libraries is available from www.ab4d.com/Overview2d.aspx.
by abenedik
5. March 2008 00:20
Based on users feedback all the Ab2d tools and libraries were improved.
Paste2Xaml (utility to read Windows metafiles (wmf), Enhanced Metafiles (emf) or get matafile objects from clipboard and can convert it into xaml) and ViewerSvg (utility to convert svg and svgz files into xaml) has been improved with a zoom toolbox that enable panning and zooming (top right on the image below).
New in Ab2d.ReaderSvg library v1.5:
- Added support for reading svgz (compresses svg) files.
- Fixed reading some embedded images - sometimes "Invalid character in a Base-64 string." exception was thrown.
New in Ab2d.ReaderWmf library v1.2:
- Fixed reading some wmf files - especially files exported from Autocad are converted properly now.
- Added MinLineWidthFactor property - useful for metafiles with lots of lines. With the property it is possible to adjust thickness of the lines.
- Added EmbeddedBitmapImages property that replaced the obsolete MetafileImages (because of misunderstanding of the property)
- Added support for reading pixels (individual points) from metafiles - they are converted to Ellipse elements with the specified radius.
New version is available from www.ab4d.com/Overview2d.aspx.
Thank you to all who have provided feedback on the Ab2d tools and libraries.
If you would also like to have some additional functionality or did find a file that does not work correctly, you are most welcome to inform me about it on my feedback page.
There is also a discussions group where you can post a question or see already answered ones.
by abenedik
4. January 2008 00:20
With new version of ReaderSvg and ReaderWmf it is now possible to read SVG, Windows metafiles (wmf) and Enhanced Metafiles (emf) from XAML.
For example:
<ab2d:SvgViewbox Source="samples/myClipart.svg"/>
SvgViewbox can be used just as Image control. Its Source property is set to the Uri of the svg file. It can be a resource, content, located on the web or on the local hard disk. It can be also used for DataBinging - for example from Combobox. For reading metafiles there is a WmfViewbox control.
There are also some other improvements and bugfixes.
New version is available from www.ab4d.com/Overview2d.aspx.