Re: WMF Support

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

Erich Hoover wrote:
> I ran into an issue with WMF files in helping someone get an application to
> work (Athena Visual Studio) and I worked around it by pre-rendering the
> application's vector WMF files.  I don't currently have the time to resolve
> the issue, but for when I do I'm curious whether there is a reason that
> OleLoadPicture* has been implemented manually.  It seems that the LGPL
> "libwmf" has excellent support for both bitmap and vector WMF files (it at
> least worked for converting the files I had trouble with!), so it seems to
> me like it would make sense to use this library rather than spinning a
> separate implementation.  Any comments are appreciated.

Do you have somewhere the specific WMF file in question? The license is a
"bit" to expensive to buy it just to test this ;-)

Rolf Kalbermatter

WMF Support

[Erich Hoover]

I actually took some time out of my day (that I probably shouldn't have) to
track down the issue and submitted a patch (
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2009-January/052045.html).  Not
everything in the WMF files renders properly but at least Wine doesn't crash
horribly, for now I've just pre-rendered the WMF files (we're distributing
computers to students with this software, so we want things to look right).
Also, there is a 15 day trial of the software :)

Erich Hoover
[e-mail]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Rolf Kalbermatter <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Erich Hoover wrote:
> > I ran into an issue with WMF files in helping someone get an application
>
> to
> > work (Athena Visual Studio) and I worked around it by pre-rendering the
> > application's vector WMF files.  I don't currently have the time to
>
> resolve
> > the issue, but for when I do I'm curious whether there is a reason that
> > OleLoadPicture* has been implemented manually.  It seems that the LGPL
> > "libwmf" has excellent support for both bitmap and vector WMF files (it at
> > least worked for converting the files I had trouble with!), so it seems to
> > me like it would make sense to use this library rather than spinning a
> > separate implementation.  Any comments are appreciated.
>
> Do you have somewhere the specific WMF file in question? The license is a
> "bit" to expensive to buy it just to test this ;-)
>
> Rolf Kalbermatter