Get path geometry from FlowDocument object

Question

Can someone tell me how to get path geometry from a WPF FlowDocument object? Please not that I do not want to use FormattedText. Thanks.

Answer 1

Can you use

ChildVisual = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(Visual yourVisual)

Dunno if you can take a Visual and turn it into a path geometry..

Answer 2

Get the Text property of a TextRange object initialized over the entire FlowDocument:

FlowDocument myFlowDocument = new FlowDocument();  //get your FlowDocument

//put in some (or it already has) text
string inText = "Hello, WPF World!";
TextRange tr = new TextRange(FlowDocument.ContentStart, FlowDocument.ContentEnd);
tr.Text = inText;

//get the current text out of the FlowDocument
TextRange trPrime = new TextRange(FlowDocument.ContentStart, FlowDocument.ContentEnd);
string outText = trPrime.Text;

//now outText == "Hello, WPF World!";

//to get formatting, looks like you would use myFlowDocument.TextEffects

Answer 3

http://www.codeplex.com/StringToPathGeometry

Answer 4

A FlowDocument can be viewed in any number of ways, but a Path is a fixed shape. I think maybe you really want some simplified, visual-only form of a FlowDocument's contents.

In that case you might try converting the FlowDocument to an XPS FixedDocument - the FixedPages have Canvases containing a bunch of Paths and Glyphs.