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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kivio file exports: only PS works
From:       "Peter Simonsson" <peter.simonsson () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-04-02 13:37:25
Message-ID: 9966b3040704020637tefb4ee3lceb1d46bb27d68e7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2007/4/2, Martin Pauly <pauly@hrz.uni-marburg.de>:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 13:59, Peter Simonsson wrote:
> > It's a known problem in 1.x which hopefully will be fixed in the up
> > coming 2.0 release.
> thanks for quick reply. But isn't there some generic way to convert
> koffice-oldstyle-xml --> ODF-newstyle-xml ?
> Even karbon wouldn't open my kivio .flw drawings,
> so I'm sort of "locked into an open file format"
> -- unless I go and write my own conversion utility,
> of course :-)
>
Well you'd have a hard time to write a conversion tool to as the file
format is so screwed up it's not funny.
> I don't mind using Postscript, but the stuff created
> by kivio does not preserve _any_ structure: Every
> single letter ist converted to a single curve,
> every solidly filled rectangular stencil consists of a
> black frame and a one-color fill rectangle after conversion:
> good for printing, but no logical structure whatsoever.
>
> BTW: When talking about preserving logical structure with XML,
> an idea from the early koffice days comes to mind:
> I used kivio to draw an LDAP tree, actually. Shouldn't there
> be a way to create a simple tree drawing right from the
> LDAP representation?
>
Maybe... currently I'm focused on making the basic things work though
(when I got time that is).

> Please don't take this as complaints, I do like koffice,
> but really can't afford the time to contribute anything
> useful except bug reports.
>
No problem

-- 
LLaP
Peter Simonsson
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