RE: What I need to be able to switch to Abi-word.

Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:36:58 +0100 (IST)


On 26-Jun-99 Phil Brutsche wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>
>>
>> On 25-Jun-99 ArcadePreserv Center wrote:
>> >
>> >For the future we alse need Revision control, and at least jpeg/WMF image
>> >import facility.
>>
>> for the record i have some wmf parsing code at
>> http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf.html which i use for converting wmf
>> files into gif and for drawing direct to the X screen. It might be a
>reasonable
>> basis for wmf importation.
>Wouldn't it be better to convert the WMF to SVG. It's my understanding
>that Abi* would be using SVG for the vector graphics. There's already a
>WMF->SVG converter available in Java; it should be easy to convert that
>into C++.

Oh it would be better alright. Except that at the time i couldn't find anything
that would actually display svg files. It should be reasonably easy to add a
svg section to the converter, its a bit messy but definintely much cleaner than
my first run at mswordview which is a bit of a hacked up nightmare. I was
interested in converting wmf files to some webformat which everyone could
actually use, so I converted them into gif instead, personally id like a wmf to
fig and wmf to ps converter, but im more focused on the needs of my other topics
of interest. If someone was to go ahead and add some more file formats to the
converter id be a very happy camper indeed.

C.

>
>I think that would make for a more accurate conversion with better
>scaling, and so on.
>
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