Hi,

Yes, CAD files in particular DXF are of high interest to me.  To support 
any file format on Mayan EDMS two things are needed:  1) Proper MIME type 
detection, Mayan depends of the libfile library to figure out of which type 
a certain file is, so if the Linux 'file' command detects the file 
correctly, Mayan detects the file correctly.  2) A Python library or 
external program that converts from the native format (DXF, DWG) to a file 
format that can be used for previews and OCR (PNG, JPG, PPM, PGM, TIFF). 
 Sadly the 'file' command detect DXF files as 'ASCII text files with CRLF 
line terminators' plus I haven't found any FOSS software to convert these 
to other formats such PNG or JPG.  I'm keeping an eye out for some DXF 
libraries I saw on Github, but no major development is happening on that 
front.  If you or anyone on the list knows of any FOSS conversion 
library/binary or detection support for DXF/DWG files let me know to add 
the support.

--Roberto

On Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:01:34 AM UTC-4, dbossy wrote:
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> Any plan to support Viewing CAD Files Online?
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