Progress on OOo GDI Metafile

[Pierre]

On Thursday 07 April 2011 16:03:22 Inge Wallin wrote:
> 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.
Well, the name in OOo is «GDI Metafile» or «StarView Metafile».
So I don't know the official name...
Anyway, wait until my parser is a bit more functionnal and proper state :)
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