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

Andy Judson andy.judson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 12:46:16 BST 2008

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

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
>
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