On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:28:15AM +0000, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Sam TH �crit:
> 
> > I think the idea would be to take the wmf image, convert it to png
> > using libwmf and associated tools, and then display it in abiword via
> > the png display mechanism.  
> >            
> 
> Please. Not as PNG but as SVG. WMF is inherently a vector format (like any 
> metafile), so SVG is IMHO the most natural format we should convert to.

Right.  SVG is the perfect format to display WMF in, and is what we
should use.

> Don't we support SVG ? 

Not yet.  Work was started on this, but never finished.  Interested
folk should look at gr_VectorImage.cpp, and at a number of emails from
Justin Bradford that are in the archives.  

This would be really cool to have.  
           
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