On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 01:12:51 Pierre wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since a long time, people have been complaining about the OpenOffice GDI
> Metafile picture format being undocumented, hence impossible to implement.
> In the plane sunday, I decided to just jump in the OpenOffice.org code and
> write both a documentation and a pure Qt implementation of that format.
> Now, I understand why nobody did that.
>
> Attached to this mail is the first screenshot... Yes, choosing to display
> such a cross is perhaps a wrong idea...
>
> What do you think is best to add support for svm in Calligra ? Adding a
> QImageIOPlugin ? Or should I convert it to svg to be able to manipulate the
> vector elements ?
>
> Pierre
Good that you are documenting the format! It has been long needed.
I think the only viable way would be to add a libgdi (I thought it was called
SVM - StarView Metafile) under the vectorshape and show it there. That should
be the simplest and most logical place.
-Inge
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