Subject: Re: WMF import (was: Re: equation editor non-image importing)
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 02:39:43 CST
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Sam TH écrit:
>
> > I think the idea would be to take the wmf image, convert it to png
> > using libwmf and associated tools, and then display it in abiword via
> > the png display mechanism.
> >
>
> Please. Not as PNG but as SVG. WMF is inherently a vector format (like any
> metafile), so SVG is IMHO the most natural format we should convert to.
> Don't we support SVG ?
>
No we don't. The stubs and ground work is there but Justin Bradford didn't
finish it before he found himself too busy to keep with Abi development.
In the near term we should convert to *.png
Martin
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