From: Steinar B. <sb...@do...> - 2002-04-15 18:50:16
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Platform: Intel PII, debian testing, PowerPoint 97, libwmf 0.2.2 installed from <http://packages.debian.org/testing/graphics/libwmf-bin.html> Today I tried converting a PowerPoint slide to SVG. The result was a 0 bytes .svg file. Running with --wmf-diagnostics gave output that seemed to indicate that WMF structures where recognized, and internal structures in wmf2svg built. Is wmf2svg of libwmf 0.2.2 known to have problems with PowerPoint files? Or should this whave worked? Here's a closer description of what I tried: I took "Save As..." in the File menu of PowerPoint, selected WMF as the file type, gave the file a name, and chose "No" in the dialog popping up, meaning "save just the selected slide". I transferred the WMF file, fig1.wmf, to a debian GNU/linux machine, and tried running wmf2svg on this file. There was no output. I tried the command wmf2svg -o fig1.svg fig1.wmf and ended up with a fig1.svg of 0 bytes. The command wmf2svg --wmf-diagnostics fig1.wmf >fig1.log 2>&1 gave me output that started like this (the entire output is 415k, and is available on request, but I figured it was too long for the list): New Record: ESCAPE [0x0626] #par=14; max. index = ? New Record: ESCAPE [0x0626] #par=6; max. index = ? New Record: ESCAPE [0x0626] #par=20; max. index = ? New Record: ESCAPE [0x0626] #par=7; max. index = ? New Record: ESCAPE [0x0626] #par=6; max. index = ? New Record: ESCAPE [0x0626] #par=12; max. index = ? New Record: SETWINDOWORG [0x020b] #par=2; max. index = 1 New Record: SETWINDOWEXT [0x020c] #par=2; max. index = 1 New Record: SETROP2 [0x0104] #par=2; max. index = 0 New Record: CREATEBRUSHINDIRECT [0x02fc] #par=4; max. index = 3 oid=0 / 13 (brush) New Record: SELECTOBJECT [0x012d] #par=1; max. index = 0 oid=0 / 13 (brush) New Record: CREATEPENINDIRECT [0x02fa] #par=5; index 2 skipped; max. index = 4 oid=1 / 13 (pen) New Record: SELECTOBJECT [0x012d] #par=1; max. index = 0 oid=1 / 13 (pen) New Record: SELECTOBJECT [0x012d] #par=1; max. index = 0 oid=0 / 13 (brush) [snip!] Thanx! - Steinar |
From: F J F. <F.J...@sh...> - 2002-04-15 19:03:56
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> Is wmf2svg of libwmf 0.2.2 known to have problems with PowerPoint > files? Or should this whave worked? No idea. > wmf2svg --wmf-diagnostics fig1.wmf >fig1.log 2>&1 > gave me output that started like this (the entire output is 415k, and > is available on request, but I figured it was too long for the list): The fact that you diagnostics indicates that it is probably a WMF file, but there may be something later in the file that libwmf doesn't like. If you send me the WMF I can have a look, but otherwise it's difficult to say anything. You could try a debug build and see if any errors crop up. Frank Francis James Franklin F.J...@sh... "No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why would you say that to somebody you don't like?" --- Elle Woods |