Uwe Stöhr wrote: > That's the same as for SVG-images. But the bitmap looks readable. > Nervertheless the Imagemagick people are working on a vector graphics > rendering engine but this is at the moment "far from beeing complete". > Also Acrobat can't handle WMF. Do you know a program that could convert > SVG and WMF-images to PDF?
There are several converters available on windows, both gratis an for cost. Simply search for "wmf converter" > Btw. WMF couldn't handle splines - strange for a vector format and > perhaps the reason why other programs can't handle it. No, that is not the reason. The reason is that WMF is not a traditional file format, but rather a binary transcript of the commands you need to represent the contents on screen or on a printer on windows. Therefore it is trivial to support wmf (and convert it to something else via a printer driver) on windows, but not so easy on other OSes. Some time ago I investigated WMF conversion. I tried to fix libwmf to handle the images I had, but gave up because it is written in C with too many layers of abstraction IMHO. I also tried to rip the code from openoffice, but it is too tightly integrated to be useful in a standalone project. Finally I started a python converter but ran out of time, so it is unfinished. If anybody wants to have a go I can publish what I have: It can read wmf files and convert them to some XML format, and some basic things can also be drawn in EPS. Georg
