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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Fwd: Support for wmf file format in Konq
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2002-02-13 9:40:54
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:41:55AM +0100, Tim Jansen wrote:
> 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.

Okay, in that case this belongs on kfm-devel probably, please continue the
discussion over there.

kfm-devel guys: anyone willing to hakc this in for 3.1? :-)

Rob
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