[Scribus] Any plans for WMF inclusion?

[Craig Bradney]

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 18:20, Blestan Tabakov wrote:
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> From: "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:15 PM
> Subject: [Scribus] Any plans for WMF inclusion?
>
> > With respect to the discussion on how to integrate wmf into scribus, I
> > just discovered that there's a package called libwmf provided by almost
> > all Linux distros. It contains executables as wmf2eps, wmf2fig, wmf2gd,
> > _wmf2svg_, and wmf2x. It would mean yet another dependency, but it may
> > be something worth thinking about, and it could save some time otherwise
> > wasted in creating another import filter.
> >
> > Christoph
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> Hi!
> with all my respect to wmf - WMF is NOT DTP oriented ... so please convert
> it to eps and then import it in scribus
>
> Blestan Tabakov

It might not be DTP oriented, but if we used libwmf, we could import it and it 
would end up as pure vectors on the Scribus page anyway, and hence then be 
perfectly good for DTP.

Craig
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