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libwmf: wmf library libwmf's homepage is http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/Packages/libwmf.html wmf documentation is at http://www.skynet.ie/~caolan/publink/libwmf/libwmf/doc/index.html
and my email for bugs and whatnot is caolan@skynet.ie
libwmf is a library for unix like machines that can convert wmf
files into other formats, currently it supports a gd binding
to convert to png, and an X one to draw direct to an X window
or pixmap.
WHAT YOU GET xwmf draws wmf files on screen (X)
use + to zoom in and
use - to zoom out
wmftopng converts wmf files to png, can use (and i recommend) truetype fonts
wmftofig converts wmf files to fig, (new program, needs some work, but very cool)
REQUIREMENTS (how text strings in wmf files are handled)
1)
First you must have the xpm libraries installed, this is
the default for linux distributions and many others, if you
don't have such a system you can get xpm from ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries
2)
To compile this code in its entirity you should have the freetype
library (http://www.freetype.org), and you should have a range
of truetype fonts, typically the ones supplied with windows.
freetype is only required for the gd binding to libwmf, i.e. the
wmftopng program, the X bindings, (xwmf) doesn't require the
truetype library, but i very much reccomend that you install
xfsft, or have a X server able to use ttf fonts.
Without the freetype library wmftopng will compile, but will
not be able to display text strings in the output png. If
you do have freetype, you still are required to specify
the directory that they are in to wmftopng as the third argument
to it, the fonts should be the standard ttf fonts supplied with
windows, or the font that the text will be rendered in will
not be the original font.
3)
Without a truetype font server and the standard windows fonts
then the X binding might render text is a different font than
would appear under windows natively, this is a runtime issue for
the xwmf program.
4)
In this release libwmf cannot resize bitmaps embedded in wmf files
on its own, and attempt to offload them to the netpbm utilities,
so you should have these installed, it wont break anything not to
have them installed, and this requirement will be removed in a later
release.
INSTALLATION it should just be a simple matter of
./configure
make
make install
on some machines you might have to have gnu make installed,
if the make fails try
gmake instead.
For full functionality you have to have X, freetype and the xpm
libraries installed.
If the xpm libraries are not in the standard locations you can use
./configure --with-xpm-dir
to point to the xpm dir location e.g.
If the freetype libraries are not in the standard locations you can use
./configure --with-ttf-dir
to point to the freetype dir location e.g.
In each case the dir can either be the dir above the include and lib dirs
where the component can be found. Or the actual dir where both the lib and
include files exist.
MORE INFORMATION
Once everything is installed, if you have an app that you wish to
compile against libwmf, here is the sample options for the gd
binding, to generate png's from wmf.
gcc wmftopng.c -lwmf -ldib -lgdwmf -lxgd -lttf -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXpm -lpng -lz -lm
the breakdown is
-lwmf -ldib -lgdwmf -lxgd -lttf -lpng -lz -lm
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the bmp the gd the truetype png library
lib handling binding gd library requirements
itself code to libwmf lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXpm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Xpm library, needed as libdib
converts dib's to xpm files.
(libdib, is for device
indepentant bitmaps, i.e bmp
files without their full headers)
the include files that are installed that you need are
wmfapi.h for all bindings
[ + gdwmfapi.h for gd binding ] OR
[ + Xwmfapii.h for X binding ]
for the X binding to draw direct to a pixmap/window
gcc xwmf.c -lwmf -ldib -lXwmf -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXpm -lm
all the same except use libXwmf which is the binding for X.
documentation will be included in a later version as to how to
wrote your own binding for the wmf library, especially wanted
ones are wmf->fig and wmf->eps.
some other info as to the current situation.
this baby currently attempts to convert 16 bit windows metafiles,
known as .wmf to something useful.
In its present state it draws the metafile to an X window, and
can output a png file.
Its early code, but works so far on...
at least the collection of clipart from msword and msworks
for win 3.1
the wordtests dir is a set of wmf files outputted from sample runs
of libwv, the png binding doesnt currently do text, but it
will once ive merged code from a tcl binding to gd that understands
the truetype format.
It doesnt do emf files, i.e 32bit metafile yet, and is surely quite
buggy at the moment.
There are a few examples of clipart files in the clipart dir, some
pointers to other freely available clipart would be appreciated.
the out.wmf file contains examples of all the currently supported
wmf functions.
This is a sister project to libwv, http://www.wvWare.com to allow that converter to decode wmf files that are embedded
in word docs.
the intention is to use it as a library that you can plug
in modules for other file formats. I imagine that the
most useful ones would be fig and eps, but i want png
support first for libwv.
CHANGELOG is the file with the changes and up to date news.
read it for updates.
C.
Download Package
libwmf/libwmf-0.1.17.tar.gz
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