Progress on OOo GDI Metafile

[Inge Wallin]

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