On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 17:19 -0700, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
Idea 1 is about improving Inkscape's data interoperability. This means being able to paste parts of drawings from Inkscape directly into OpenOffice.org and MS Word and the other way around. This would involve writing a cross platform WMF and EMF output extension (our current EMF extension is Windows only). This could be accomplished by using libwmf, but this project seems to be abandoned since 2002. Another option is to use some code from OpenOffice.org. Recently (2006), MS published a full specification of those formats, so writing a new library to read and write them isn't out of the question.
I think writing a new library is never a good idea. Patching theirs to make it better is probably more reasonable. I believe that Abiword and other use it also, so making it better helps a lot more projects than Inskcape. Making a new library for Inkscape only helps us.
--Ted