Re: [Sodipodi-list] WMF importing

[Paulo N. de S. <desouza@Math.Berkeley.EDU>]

    >From br...@os...  Tue Apr 22 12:42:27 2003
    >From: Bryce Harrington <br...@os...>
    >To: Paulo Ney de Souza <desouza@Math.Berkeley.EDU>
    >cc: <sod...@li...>
    >Subject: Re: [Sodipodi-list] WMF importing
    >
    >It is not enabled in the current release.  I played around with it a few
    >weeks ago.  I think it may need further development & testing but I
    >don't know of the extent or specifics of work required.

It would be really nice to have it up ...I am looking for it ...

    >I did find a wmf2svg converter (part of libwmf I believe), but it seemed
    >to work well only for really clean and simple wmf's, and I ended up just
    >redrawing them.

I have also found other examples of WMF that break the converters in the 
"libwmf" library (wmf2svg is one of the programs there) and I am looking
for others, do you have any particular simple example to share ? It would
b e nice to have them in one place for the people working in the "libwmf"
project.

    >Btw, another tool worth trying is autotrace, which does raster to svg
    >conversion.  Going from WMF->BMP->autotrace->svg->sodipodi is
    >entertaining.
    >
    >Bryce

Yup! But that defeats the purpose, WMF is a vector format and going bitmap
and coming back is a sure way to loose information ...

Paulo Ney