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[Libwpg-devel] SoC WPG conversion: progress as of June 12, 2006

[Ariya H. <ari...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

Here's the status so far with my Summer of Code (WPG conversion filter).

Last week I managed to understand how to construct the cubic Bezier
curve, from the polycurve record. This was not so easy but finally I
could find that out. With support for curve, I was able to convert and
view many WPGs in the WordPerfect's clipart folder. See the result
here e.g:
http://ariya.blogspot.com/2006/06/curvey-landscape.html

I also took some time to adjust WPG1 parsing code to match the new
painting model. This is going well, so hopefully I can commit
everything that I work on so far to libwpg CVS in the next days. I
just want to complete first the handling of Bezier curve also in the
WPG1 version.

When this is done, I'll tackle again the issue with transformation
(only for WPG2) and the move on to the WPG-to-ODG task.

Also, if someone has good collections of WPG2 files, I'll be very
happy if I can have a look and use them for testing. WordPerfect
Office's clipart does not contain many files and what we have in
libwpg CVS are mostly WPG1.


Regards,

Ariya Hidayat

Re: [Libwpg-devel] SoC WPG conversion: progress as of June 12, 2006

[Smokey A. <alq...@mi...>]

At 11:32 AM +0200 on 6/12/06, Ariya Hidayat wrote:

>Also, if someone has good collections of WPG2 files, I'll be very
>happy if I can have a look and use them for testing. WordPerfect
>Office's clipart does not contain many files and what we have in
>libwpg CVS are mostly WPG1.

I have some good news and bad news on this front.

I just checked my WP 3.5 CD, and it seems to have 5929 WPG2 files on 
it, if nothing is lying.  They all date from 1996, so they're not 
terribly complex (in my spot-checks).

More discouragingly, though, these files were never distributed in 
the free WP-Mac download or elsewhere, so I suspect they were 
licensed to Corel and that there are restrictions on my dissemination 
of them in electronic format :-(  (And I'm not ready to part with my 
WP 3.5 license yet, nor bring the wrath of Corel on myself or 
libwp*...)

Smokey
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Re: [Libwpg-devel] SoC WPG conversion: progress as of June 12, 2006

[Ariya H. <ari...@gm...>]

Hi Smokey,

> I just checked my WP 3.5 CD, and it seems to have 5929 WPG2 files on
> it, if nothing is lying.  They all date from 1996, so they're not
> terribly complex (in my spot-checks).

This is a very interesting collection, I must say.

> More discouragingly, though, these files were never distributed in
> the free WP-Mac download or elsewhere, so I suspect they were
> licensed to Corel and that there are restrictions on my dissemination
> of them in electronic format :-(  (And I'm not ready to part with my
> WP 3.5 license yet, nor bring the wrath of Corel on myself or
> libwp*...)

I tried to find WP 3.5 Mac on European ebays, but hardly found
anything. Beside I also don't own any Macs.

So, unless somebody else who has that WP (and does not need anymore)
gives it to me, I guess I must stay with my limited test cases so far.
Of course, when libwpg reaches a usable state, you can always
'torture' it with your collections.

Thank you.

Regards,

Ariya