[Wvware-devel] I'm Back ...

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

After several months of being off the net due to loss of my DSL line
(Northpoint bankruptcy), I am back.

I have been out of touch with what is going on with libwmf but see
that there is now a libwmf2, which seems (from the description) to be
much cleaner than libwmf.

Since libwmf2 is the future, and libwmf is the past, I plan to adapte
ImageMagick to use libwmf2.  I also still plan on adding the
Ghostscript-style Fontmap support to ImageMagick.

There has been mention of including an ImageMagick driver in libwmf2
that outputs ImageMagick's native drawing commands.  From
ImageMagick's standpoint, it is better to treat libwmf (the library)
the same as any other graphics library it depends on.  Energy is
better spent to produce libwmf drivers that output standard vector
formats (e.g. SVG, FIG, EPS, PDF, & CGM).  It would also be useful for
the library to be able to read 32-bit WMF (EMF), and to be able to
write WMF and EMF files.  I (possibly naively) assume that EMF is a
superset of WMF so it should be possible for one library to handle
both formats.

When is the first tarball of libwmf2 expected to be released for ftp
so it can be used by other packages?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfr...@si...
http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen