broken .wmf import in inkscape 0.46?
Hi again, another problem I'm having is that wmf import seems to be broken in inkscape 0.46 (both on CentOS 5.2 and F9). The same wmfs are working fine in Inkscape 0.45 (tested on CentOS 5.2). This is very annoying because wmf used to be a good file format for exchange with commercial Windows application, such as ChemDraw and others.
You can find example files on my webserver (original wmf file and Inkscape 0.45/0.46 screenshots):
http://lkenhagen.de/files/target_cdx.wmf http://lkenhagen.de/files/inkscape045.png http://lkenhagen.de/files/inkscape046.png
Is there any fix/patch for this behaviour?
jan falkenhagen-3 wrote:
wmf import seems to be broken in inkscape 0.46
probably best thing is to submit a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape and attach a sample file. The file target_cdx.wmf loads into Inkscape devel from Sept 5, but there appears to be a problem with font size.
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 23:53 +0200, jan falkenhagen wrote:
Hi again, another problem I'm having is that wmf import seems to be broken in inkscape 0.46 (both on CentOS 5.2 and F9). The same wmfs are working fine in Inkscape 0.45 (tested on CentOS 5.2). This is very annoying because wmf used to be a good file format for exchange with commercial Windows application, such as ChemDraw and others.
You can find example files on my webserver (original wmf file and Inkscape 0.45/0.46 screenshots):
http://lkenhagen.de/files/target_cdx.wmf http://lkenhagen.de/files/inkscape045.png http://lkenhagen.de/files/inkscape046.png
Is there any fix/patch for this behaviour?
On 0.45 we used libwmf for this, and on 0.46 we're using uniconverter. If you have wmf2svg installed, you should be able to take the INX file from 0.45 and drop it in your 0.46 extensions directory and it should work. Oh, you'll need to remove the 0.46 WMF one also. We don't handle conflicts well there.
--Ted
Ted Gould wrote:
On 0.45 we used libwmf for this, and on 0.46 we're using uniconverter.
yes, I forgot about that, I just ran the DOS command : C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>wmf2svg \windows\temp\target_cdx.wmf > \windows\temp\out.svg and it appears to have worked well, afaict.
In Inkscape, both the native wmf import and the uniconvertor wmf import have failed to deal properly with the text, although it looks like the file preview may be okay (possibly), very confusing.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:53 AM, jan falkenhagen wrote:
Hi again, another problem I'm having is that wmf import seems to be broken in inkscape 0.46 (both on CentOS 5.2 and F9). The same wmfs are working fine in Inkscape 0.45 (tested on CentOS 5.2). This is very annoying because wmf used to be a good file format for exchange with commercial Windows application, such as ChemDraw and others.
You can find example files on my webserver (original wmf file and Inkscape 0.45/0.46 screenshots):
http://lkenhagen.de/files/target_cdx.wmf http://lkenhagen.de/files/inkscape045.png http://lkenhagen.de/files/inkscape046.png
This is, I believe, because there is text in WMF, which currently isn't supported in UniConvertor.
I forwarded your mail to Igor Novikov who is maintainer of UC.
Alexandre
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