[oats-sig] Ang: Re: Ang: Re: wmf to svg conversion

Thanks all for your help!

Mats,

In the simplest form you could create a .bat file with a single line like
this (that's in Windows, in *nix you have more versatile tools at your
disposal)
   for /f %%f in ('dir /b *.wmf') do java -jar wmf2svg-0.8.1.jar %%f %%f.svg

This will loop on all wmf files in the current directory and execute the
java -jar (..) command on each of them - resulting file names will be in the
form of <filename>.wmf.svg.

Alternatively you could use a perl script - put the below into .pl file and
execute using http://www.activestate.com/store/activeperl/download/
either by doubleclick or through commandline "perl <file>.pl"

@files = <*.wmf>;
foreach $file (@files) {
  $newfilename = substr($file,0,-4) . ".svg";
  $command = "java -jar wmf2svg-0.8.1.jar " . $file . " " . $newfilename;
  exec ($command);
}

This will loop on all .wmf files in the current directory and convert them
into <filename>.svg

hth

r.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Mats Lundälv <mats.lundalv at vgregion.se>
wrote:

> Thanks all for your help!
>
> My point is really to find a usable direct path directly from the wmf/emf
> vector format to the svg vector format.
>
> Steeve: As far as I had understood the ImageMagick package only really
> fully supports raster graphics formats and not vector graphics. This libwmf
> seems to provide a possible add-on to IM, but looks a bit uncertain, as in
> alpha stage, and these projects don't seem very end-user oriented. I'll have
> a look.
> Do you know what tools Garry and friends use?
>
> Robert, I have just downloaded the wmf2svg jar file you pointed me to,
> thanks. There are no explicit instructions for batch conversions there -
> have you found a format for that?
> This one looks as it could have been an implementation of the batik java
> classes - same Apache license, but no clear pointers to batik, as far as I
> can see.
> I'll go ahead testing this and the other alternatives I have.
>
> I'll try to remember to give you some feedback on how I succeed.
>
> Andy, thanks for your offer! I'll send you a couple of files if you care
> for checking this up.
>
> Cheers,
> Mats <mats.lundalv at sit.se>
>
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> Ärende: Re: [oats-sig] Ang: Re: wmf to svg conversion
>
>
> Hi Robert, i can't remember which version... will try to check later.
>
> Mats / Steve (sorry can't remember who started this thread) - if you could
> send me a couple of the wmf files i'll see what is involved in patching my
> code... it should be easier than the png technique - i think when i did this
> i had to use the potrace as a proxy to trace the symbol the result was then
> made into an svg - worked quite well for bliss symbols although the were a
> little round at the tips.
>
> 2008/6/30 Robert Rasiewicz <robert.wk at gmail.com>:
>
>> this did work for me nicely for wmf (I did not test the transparency,
>> though)
>>    http://code.google.com/p/wmf2svg/
>>
>> on the same test file I did try ImageMagick 6.3.7 11/21/07 convert.exe and
>> it failed horribly
>>
>> which version of ImageMagick were you working against, Andy ?
>>
>> r.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey they look really interesting, I know someone who wants edge tracing.
>>>
>>> it's worth noting that wmf/emf are vector formats so conversion should
>>> be easier.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> 2008/6/30 Andy Judson <andy.judson at gmail.com>:
>>> > I wrote a .net app to do this from png to svg for the bliss symbols
>>> using
>>> > the imagemagick library... but the code is at home and i can't remember
>>> much
>>> > about it... i can have a look if i can tweak it for you.
>>> >
>>> > other libraries to look at
>>> >
>>> > [1] http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
>>> > [2] http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
>>> >
>>> > 2008/6/30 Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk>:
>>> >>
>>> >> oh Inkscape will import WMF so that's a good non-batch alternative and
>>> >> I think OO0 will if you 'break' the image after import.
>>> >>
>>> >> Steve
>>> >>
>>> >> 2008/6/30 Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk>:
>>> >> >> I have been looking around again for tools to convert wmf/emf
>>> graphic
>>> >> >> files
>>> >> >> to svg.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Well the PHP web server tool of choice seems to be ImageMagick and
>>> >> > while I have not tried it yet it looks like there are command line
>>> >> > versions.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I came across SVG factory before and there's libwmf but there
>>> doesn't
>>> >> > seem to have been any activity since 2002
>>> >> >
>>> >> > http://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I've not tried any of them yet as Garry exports directly to wmf or
>>> SVG
>>> >> > as required.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > --
>>> >> > Steve Lee
>>> >> > --
>>> >> > Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>>> >> > web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>>> >> > blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Steve Lee
>>> >> --
>>> >> Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>>> >> web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>>> >> blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Lee
>>> --
>>> Open Source Assistive Technology Software
>>> web: fullmeasure.co.uk
>>> blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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