Re: emf woes

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 23 April 2004 03:31 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > Can you tell me where you found a copy of the current EMF spec?
>
> Maybe we don't need one.  Look what I just came across on my Linux box,
> in file /usr/share/doc/packages/libEMF/README:

Hoho. I don't have any such libEMF on my machines, but a brief search
turns up
	http://libemf.sourceforge.net/
which contains this fascinating statement:

"My general interest in this library is for making scientific plots with 
 gnuplot and Grace(forthcoming). Therefore, this software includes 
 patches to those programs to add the EMF as an output option."

But I see no such patches on SourceForge or in the libemf tarball,
and the project seems to have been moribund since Jan 2002.
It is not clear to me that it would be a good idea to switch over
to building emf.trm on top of an unsupported library.  On the other
hand, if this library or some equivalent one has been adopted into
the OpenOffice source tree, then maybe we should look there to
see if we can use it. 

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