Re: WMF Support?

[Hans Breuer <Hans Breuer org>]

At 18:25 16.04.04, Alan Horkan wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>
> > Le Thu, Apr 15, 2004, Ã  06:22:28PM -0600, Justin Gombos a écrit:
>
> > > > Have you tried WMF? This is Windows' native vector format, and in my
> > > > experience Word likes it.
>
>
> > AFAIK the only serious difference is that dia on Windows can do WMF 
> (through
> > its use of the native WMF output library provided by the GDI, which 
> explains
> > why we have some trouble porting this to *nix. Well libwmf (libemf?) 
> exists,
> > but I don't know whether it's good enough).

Looks like we are all trapped in a giant time loop :
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2001-November/msg00013.html

[If having WMF support (!:) on *NIX is really worth the effort please
consider to fill in the blanks in the existing portability layer in Dia's
existing wmf export plug-in (as adviced in the source and above).]


http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-February/msg00154.html
[Oh and nowadays one should also add SVG to the list of vector
formats for data exchange between modern applications]

> http://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html
>
> I was going to say libwmf only does import but it goes to show how long it
> has been since I read the webpage, they now have experimental WMF export
> (and I think it is brilliant that it now has a loader for gdkpixbuf,
> every graphics program should have one!)
>
> Although the libwmf page talks about the possibility of adding
> support for other file formats inlcuding EMF it doesnt do so yet.
>
> Libemf is a seperate project
> http://libemf.sourceforge.net/
A little deeper look reveals
http://libemf.sourceforge.net/libemf_8h-source.html


#ifndef _LIBEMF_H
  ...
#include <wine/w16.h>

If it would be acceptable for dia/plug-ins/wmf to depend on wine,
I simply can't see why one should use libemf (just another
indirection?) at all ...


        Hans
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