Processing Illustrator or pdf files into XAML

Question

What are the alternatives to process illustrator files or PDFs into XAML. My Current workflow works like this:

1. Open the PDF file in Adobe illustrator
2. Save the file as .ai (Adobe Illustrator) file
3. Open in Expression Design
4. Do some processing, mainly separating elements to layers and removing unneeded parts.
5. Save as XAML
6. Add XAML to Blend project

My only problem is that this way the text gets converted to paths. I would like to keep my text in XAML as well instead of paths.

Is there any other way to do this, so I keep the text? Any other tools?

Answer 1

There's a (free) Adobe Illustrator plugin to export to XAML. Not sure it does exactly what you are looking for, though.

Find it at http://www.mikeswanson.com/XAMLExport/