XFig import filter revived in branch filters-karbon-xfig-recreate2012

Jan Hambrecht jaham at gmx.net
Tue Mar 6 09:19:03 GMT 2012


On 05.03.2012 01:50, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just pushed an inital rewrite of the XFig import filter as a branch
> 	filters-karbon-xfig-recreate2012
> on the main repo.
>
> The filter already converts a big part of the xfig 3.2 format to ODG in its
> current state. Work left to do:
> * making text layout really work
> * support all arrow types
> * support the fill structure patterns
>
> And perhaps not easily done:
> * convert X-splines to something ODG/SVG supports
>
> If anybody has any knowledge on that one, I really welcome any pointers here,
> have no experience on graph calculations.
>
> For pretty picture see http://frinring.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/reading-other-
> files-from-the-past/
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich

Great Work! Seems like you will run out of file formats to implement in 
a very short time.

Ciao Jan




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