Subject: Re: Peers & Questions
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 04:03:24 CDT
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Martin Sevior wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > Quoting F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>:
> > > (1) What are the various peer directories? I know
> > > abi, abidistfiles, expat, libiconv, psiconv, unixfonts, wv
> > Also abiword-docs, abispell, MSVC6 (project files)
Ta.
> > > (2) Are we still on expat-1.95.1, and if so is it worth updating?
> > We are on 1.95-1 and 1.95-2 is out. It is probably worth updating to. Anyone
> > wanna do this? http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/expat
I'll have a shot at this, since I brought it up.
BTW, I have an *unorthodox* patch against abi & expat that enables abiword
to import HTML, which I've tested variously. I doubt the expat people
would like it, though (It's a violation of our most basic principles!),
and I don't know if it's worth the hassle, but FWIW.
> > > (3) As I mentioned a while back, I'm thinking of creating a 'lite'
> > > version
> > > of libwmf specifically for AbiWord. Would it be okay to make this an
> > > abi peer?
> > This could be cool. What were you thinking of right now, wmf->png for abi's
> > uses until we properly support SVG?
> Please do this. I'd love to see equations and embedded objects in
> abiword via wmf => png.
> I hope we get full SVG support but if you can get us these quickly via WMF
> => png it would be very cool.
Very funny. (I mean it.) I told you 6 weeks ago I had written a wmf->png
importer and you said to do wmf->svg instead (thus, in part, my recent
interest in SVG).
One problem I have is 'sniffing'. Some wmfs are easily identifiable as
such, others it's a case of suck-it-and-see - i.e., parse the entire file
and if there weren't any errors then it was probably a wmf. Which is a
pretty expensive sniff.
One other thing, how can I determine page width & height (in pixels)?
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
Deep in the human unconsciousness is a pervasive need for a logical
universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step
beyond logic.
--- from `The Sayings of Muad'dib' by the Princess Irulan
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