Re: [wxCode-users] Using wxPdfDocument to export a simple GDI generated documents to PDF

[Peter G. <pet...@gm...>]

Ulrich,


Thanks for your help, and thanks for getting back to me.

> wxPdfDocument's support of WMF files is limited. Not all GDI commands
> are supported. Especially font support is lacking.

I saw that, but thought it was unlikely to matter - I'm just using
TextOut and DrawLine. We're talking about very simple documents.

>> The only other way that I can find of doing this entails purchasing
>> an extremely overpriced licence for a commercial library.
>
> There exist low cost solutions for WMF to PDF conversion. You might even
> consider to use an open source solution like ImageMagick.


I couldn't find any that I'd consider low cost - perhaps we have
different definitions of low cost. I would consider perhaps €200 or
€300 an acceptable amount to pay. I can find plenty of utilities (as
oppose to libraries) that do it though.

I could find this, but it seems fairly crappy:
http://www.soft-album.com/Development/Components-Libraries/Image-to-PDF-Dynamic-Link-Library-6428-Review.html
. I'd like to have source code, and they are suspiciously reticent
about whether or not they provide it.

ImageMagick looks good, but I'm not sure I want to use such a
monolithic library - I already use FreeImage+.

So, looks like I'll be using some commercial library (there is
something about these commercial library sites that puts me
off.....they have the look of snake oil salesmen).

Regards,
Peter Geoghegan