Microsoft Expression Design

The expression for family related and not available as a standalone product image editing program Microsoft Expression Design is aimed at professional designers and developers. It is based on the vector expression of the program adopted by Microsoft 2003 Software manufacturer Creature House and was using the Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF) programming. The code name for Expression Design Acrylic and was originally announced as Expression Graphic Designer until the current name was established in December 2006.

The graphics can not only in the Adobe formats for Photoshop (. PSD), Illustrator (. AI) and Acrobat (. PDF) be exported, but in XAML, which continue to be used in Microsoft Expression Blend or directly in WPF -based applications can.

In December 2012, Microsoft announced the product not to want to develop and placed the version 4 for free download.

Availability

For the first time appeared Expression Design on 30 April 2007. 4 The current version is available in English as part of the Expression Studio 4 since June 7, 2010, the German version was released a short time later in July 2010. It is designed for Windows platform from Windows XP available and sets the. NET Framework 4.0 ahead.

In September 2011, a new pre-release version was published under the name of Expression Design September 2011 Preview, which introduces, among other SVG export.

Since December 2012, the version 4 is available as a free download.