Hi,

I will take a look at lx-viewer.  Thanks Dairon!

On Monday, October 15, 2012 10:25:12 AM UTC-4, Dairon Medina Caro wrote:

> Hi this software can be used to convert CAD files to bmp, png: 
> http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/  hope it helps.
>
> 2012/10/15 Roberto Rosario <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> Any plan to support Viewing CAD Files Online?
>>>
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