Initial work on a Karbon CDR import filter

[Sven Langkamp]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
<kossebau at kde.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> last weekend I started to try if I can do an import filter for the
> CorelDraw
> file format. I managed to get first parts of that format decoded and turned
> into some Karbon document data, see also my blog entry
>
> http://frinring.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/trying-to-read-files-from-the-
> past/
>
> Some questions:
> Initially I tried to create directly a KarbonDocument object, not another
> SVG
> file. But then I found out that shapes like e.g. Rectangle and Ellipsis are
> only provided by factories from plugins, so I cannot create them directly
> from
> code, is that correct? Do I really have to instead create a SVG file as
> output?
>
> Anybody would like to join the efforts? You are welcome! The CDR formats I
> will work on are the ones for version 4 and 5 (as these are the ones of the
> files I am interested in). So people with other versions will have to
> scratch
> their itch themselves :)
>
> You can find the current state in the branch “CDRImport” in my clone of the
> Calligra repo here:
>
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fcalligra%2Fkossebau%2Fcalligra.git&a=summary
>

Why are you using libcdr? No idea in what state it is, but that would share
the code with other projects and produce less duplicated code.
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