Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.44 development status
Ulf Erikson wrote:
Isn't it easy to limit an extension to a particular platform? The
Windows-only code wouldn't harm anyone in that case.. besides, do you
have any need of EMF on Linux? Did you look at my PDF exporter? That
one works okay with pdflatex. Personally I see EMF mainly as something
to be used with MS-Word, but maybe I am wrong in that assumption.
OpenOffice.org running on Linux can create (export) to EMF, it also can
open (import) EMF. WMF/EMF is one of the easiest ways to work with
scalable graphics in OpenOffice.org. Some of the clipart included in
StarOffice, as an enhancement over the free OpenOffice.org, is in WMF
format.
As OpenOffice.org can't import SVG clipart for the moment, one of he
proposed workarounds is to convert from SVG to WMF/EMF.
For the Open Clip Art Library it would be useful if we could
mass-convert images from WMF/EMF to SVG and include them in the library
(when we find or receive images with a suitable license, as happened in
the past).
Anyway, the needed functions are part of the Windows API, but as far
as I know they are re-implemented in libemf. So technically you should
be able to use this extension on Linux by linking with libemf. Maybe
using libemf would be an option for Win95/98 as well? But I somehow
doubt that you would be able to view such an EMF on Win95/98..
I don't know which library is used in OpenOffice.org, nor how good it it
with complex images.
--
nicu