> I have literally thousands of files in *.wmf format, the product of a > misspent > youth! > > The only program that seems to convert them properly to a format usable in > Scribus (EPS) is OOdraw. Inkscape seems to get the colours wrong and the > layers in the wrong order. So does every other Linux program suggesting that > the problem lies in libwmf.
XnView (http://www.xnview.com/) is a great graphics viewer. XnView can display and convert an incredible amount of file formats (including wmf) and it has a batch mode (GUI or commandline), so you can convert all of your *.wmf files at once. Christoph