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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Support for wmf file format in Konq
From:       Tim Jansen <tjansen () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-02-13 9:41:55
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On Wednesday 13 February 2002 08:41, Rob Kaper wrote:
> Supporting WMF in KDE's audio architecture would be nice, but it is a
> fairly closed format with tricky patent/license issues, so I wouldn't count
> on it soon..

WMF is the Windows Metafile Format (vector graphics) which should not have 
any patent restrictions. A library for reading them already exists 
(http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf.html), so it should not be very 
difficult to do this. Volunteers? :) 

WMA is the Windows Media Audio format.

bye...



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