On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > Martin Vermeer wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Joost Verburg wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>The default formats list only includes the 16-bit Windows Metafile (WMF) > >>format. The attached patch adds the 32-bit Enhanced Metafile (EMF) > >>format, which is the replacement for WMF. > >> > >>I also added support for the metafile2eps conversion utility that I have > >>written (based on other open-source utilities) and will be uploaded to > >>the wiki this week. > >> > >>wmf2eps does the same thing (it also supports both WMF and EMF) but > >>costs $20. That's why I have created an open-source alternative. > >> > >>Is this patch OK to apply? > > > >This is nice! > > > >Are you aware / have you used libwmf? Or emftoeps? > > I use the Adobe Postscript printer drivers that are bundled with Windows > to do the actual conversion. So the picture is printed to a special > Postscript printer and the output is redirected to an EPS file. The page > size and bounding box are automatically configured to match the picture > size. > > This is the only reliable way that works with every file. libwmf doesn't > even support EMF files.
How does it work on Linux? - Martin
