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Microsoft Expression Design 
Microsoft Expression Design ScreenshotDeveloper(s) Microsoft Stable release 4 (7.0.20516.9) / June 7, 2010 Operating system Microsoft Windows Type Vector graphics editor License Proprietary EULA Website Microsoft Expression: Design Microsoft Expression Design is Microsoft's commercial professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. It is part of the Microsoft Expression Studio suite. Expression Design is more oriented towards editing XAML and web graphics rather than print graphics (like Photoshop and Illustrator) and does not incorporate all of the raster image editing features of the original Creature House Expression.
Expression Design was codenamed Acrylic and was originally announced as Expression Graphic Designer until the current name was adopted in December 2006.
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Availability
The final version of Expression Design was released to manufacturing along with other Expression products on 30 April 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers.[1] Service Pack 1 for Expression Design was released on October 17, 2007.[2]
Expression Design requires the .NET Framework 3.0 as it uses Windows Presentation Foundation. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather only as part of the Expression Studio suite. Originally Expression Studio was not included in any MSDN subscription, but in 2007 Microsoft added it to the highest level MSDN Subscription.[3] Version 2 was released in May 2008 as part of Expression Studio 2.
Expression Design is available for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 on the Windows platform.
A trial version of Expression Design is available.[4] A free copy of Expression Studio 4 (as well as older versions) is available as part of Microsoft's Dreamspark Campaign to eligible students.[5]
Expression Design 4, released as part of Expression Studio 4 added the ability to import Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), and Enhanced Metafile Plus (EMF+) files into your Expression Design project.
See also
- Creature House Expression
- List of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of office suites
References
- ^ Expression Studio RTM news
- ^ Expression Design SP1
- ^ MSDN Subscription information page
- ^ Expression Design trial version: Requires .NET Framework 3.0
- ^ https://www.dreamspark.com/Products/Product.aspx?ProductId=31
External links
- Microsoft Expression product site
- Microsoft Expression Design
- Microsoft Expression team blog - News, samples, tutorials for the Suite.
- Expression Design blog - focusing on Expression Design.
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