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• Silverlight: Font Embedding

  There's some great stuff been put together by Slyi on his blog around subsetting and embedding fonts. You've all been asking me lots of questions about it, but he answers it better than I ever could! Check it out at: http://wpf-e.spaces.live.com... Posted May 24 2007, 07:32 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International, MIX07

• Silverlight: Convert Text to Path

  The WPF APIs provide a FormattedText object that allows you to export its contents as a Geometry, which in turn allows you to generate its contents in the XAML Path Mini Language . Here's an example of a Web service that takes in the text, typeface... Posted May 22 2007, 06:07 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International, WPF, Architecture

• Silverlight: Using Text from Unsupported Fonts

  In Expression Blend you have the facility to convert text from a textblock into a XAML path. This then has no dependency on the original font, and the text will be rendered by Silverlight. So, for example here's Expression Blend with some text written... Posted May 21 2007, 03:00 PM by Blogs Filed under: Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International, Architecture

• Silverlight and Beijing 2008 Olympics

  I've been working on a project involving Silverlight and the Beijing 2008 olympics. We demonstrated this at MIX 07, and the session is online here: http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2010,2011&pid=XB005&disc=&id... Posted May 09 2007, 03:35 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, silverlight, Web.NEXT, Chinese, MIX07

• Chinese, and other International Text in WPF/E

  For our friends in the international community, text rendering is possible by means of the Glyph tag. So, for example this XAML: < Canvas x:Name = " GlyphDisplayCanvas " Canvas.Left = " 0 " Canvas.Top = " 0 " > <... Posted Apr 06 2007, 01:10 PM by Blogs Filed under: WPF/E, Web.NEXT, Unicode, Chinese, International