On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:30:31 +0200 Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Vermeer wrote: > >> I use the Adobe Postscript printer drivers that are bundled with Windows > >> to do the actual conversion. So the picture is printed to a special > >> Postscript printer and the output is redirected to an EPS file. The page > >> size and bounding box are automatically configured to match the picture > >> size. > >> > >> This is the only reliable way that works with every file. libwmf doesn't > >> even support EMF files. > > > > How does it work on Linux? > > It works only on Windows. So if you use Windows applications that create > metafiles you also need to do the conversion while running Windows. The > conversion utility has a user interface that allows you to copy graphics > directly from other applications. > > Conversion on Linux is very difficult because you would need a reliable > library that does the GDI to Postscript conversion. I don't think such a > thing exists. Would it be very hard to get a pre-existing WMF-reading package to do EMF? libwmf seems to be in deep hibernation since 2001... an advantage would be that it does .fig in addition to .eps, so you could import. - Martin
