Re: Support SVG Export

On 3 February 2010 21:28, Jeff Schiller <codedread_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like there are several options:
>
> * use a library that converts from WMF to SVG.  Some links here: http://openclipart.org/wiki/SVG_Tools
> * use something like this to convert GDI+ directly to SVG: http://www.jbrowse.com/svgnet/
>
> (I would prefer the more direct approach as it seems that conversion from WMF might introduce errors)

Thanks for doing some initial research; that always helps when
proposing something new.

I had a quick look at the links. SVGNet is written as C# and I'm not
sure how that fits with the rest of the C++ application. Also it was
last updated in September 2003, so not what you call supported.

libwmf proclaims itself as alpha quality and was last released in December 2002.

The only one that looks promising is Cairo, and that would require
rewriting everything that currently uses GDI+ to use Cairo instead. Or
am I missing something?

Oh, there is a Windows executable at the bottom of that page which
will do batch conversions. Source is available. It's very much a
command line utility, so integrating it would take some work.

Are you volunteering?

Simon

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