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• Alex K commented  ·  June 22, 2011 1:22 p.m.  ·  Delete

  @Shaun I think so, but you never know how "professional" it is.

• Anonymous commented  ·  June 7, 2011 6:45 a.m.  ·  Delete

  As of today, Flash fonts look a lot nicer. We want sharp, smooth fonts. I don't want to feel like I'm looking at Windows XP fonts.

• Shaun Tonstad commented  ·  May 19, 2011 2:42 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Isn't this coming in SL5?

• Christian Palmstierna Ⓥ commented  ·  November 2, 2010 2:54 a.m.  ·  Delete

  To me, the most important feature would be improving the actual rendering (some font and style combinations look like crap), and adding new rendering modes along the lines of Adobe CS (normal, crisp, strong, smooth etc). I don't know how many times a beautiful PSD design has looked like crap when implemented in SL just because the text rendering is so horrid in comparison.

• garethwatt commented  ·  June 21, 2010 8:21 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Agreed, as a long-term user of Flash I'd say that the text rendering capabilities even in very earlier versions (of Flash) are far superior (to SL). Also with Flash you don't have the legal implications of redistributing fonts as part of your .swf as the fonts are 'resynthesized'. As Jacob correctly says designers want to be able to at least control leading/kerning etc.

  Further to this it would be useful to be able to specify textblocks as 'copy/pastable' via a property to allow users to select text from your SL app and cut and paste it into another app on their computer.

• Jacob commented  ·  June 5, 2010 1:06 p.m.  ·  Delete

  At the minimum, it'd be nice to be able to control things like leading and kerning. Every designer I know always adjusts stuff like that, and that makes it hard to integrate into XAML TextBlocks.

• Jose Fajardo commented  ·  May 18, 2010 11:31 p.m.  ·  Delete

  if this is flowdocument then yes you get my vote, we need a good way to flow text around objects and get access to these elements programatically (like during copy/paste scenarios or spell checking/thesauraus scenarios).

  Trying to keep close to the WPF if possible BUT if you need to reinvent a new way please port back into WPF.

• Gope commented  ·  May 5, 2010 5:36 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Exactly! I would like to cascade textboxes and use multi column layouts. Even more important is the ability to get beyond the rectangular textframes meaning grouping of textboxes and graphic objects to create textflow paths so that the text gets layouted around objects!
  Great stuff otherwise. Keep up the good work!

• fuzzyman commented  ·  December 2, 2009 2:53 p.m.  ·  Delete

  A better subset of FlowDocument is *much* needed so that XAML can be shared between Silverlight and WPF. Text rendering in Silverlight is awful - and rtf is a pretty horrible API for *displaying* formatted text.

• misha.bergal commented  ·  September 24, 2009 12:05 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I don't think that we need WPF's FlowDocument, but just something that professionally (well, on par with Flash) renders text.

  Yes, rendering quality got from unacceptable in SL2 to acceptable in SL3, but after spending a lot of time working on professional UX and UI of my app I just cannot allow first impression of it to be ruined by unprofessional SL font rendering.

• Roland Zwaga commented  ·  September 13, 2009 11:33 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Hey Martin, I wasn't familiar with FlowDocument yet, but yea, I guess that would be it. The Flash equivalent would be the Text Layout Framework:
  http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/

• Martin Kirk commented  ·  September 9, 2009 4:47 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Is this related to FlowDocument (WPF) ??