[Scribus] wmf files

Plinnell scribusdocs
Tue Sep 21 22:46:10 CEST 2004


On Tuesday 21 September 2004 21:08, Adam Stein wrote:
> >Are there any plans to support importing of wmf files?
> >
> >Alternatively, is there an easy way to convert a wmf file to something
> >that Scribus does support?  Gimp doesn't appear to support wmf either.
>
> I believe Gimp does support wmf format if you have 'libwmf' installed.
>
>                                                 Adam Stein
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> Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation       Email: adam at scan.mc.xerox.com
>
> Disclaimer: All views expressed
> here have been proved to be my own.  [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]

It depends.. It is a build time option, if the devel packages are installed. 
That said, converting to SVG or EPS (vector) is preferable. WMF is not a 
really ideal format for a print oriented application. Imagemagik or Xnview 
can convert it to many different formats.

Peter




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