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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: EMF parser / renderer in playground
From:       Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date:       2008-10-07 9:55:43
Message-ID: 200810072055.44889.bradh () frogmouth ! net
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On Tuesday 07 October 2008 08:38:09 pm Cyrille Berger wrote:
> I am wondering if there is something inherently wrong with libkowmf that
> need a rewrite from scratch ? From the look of it, it allready allows
> parsing, rendering and converting to a different file format. I don't think
> there would be an issue to extract libkowmf from KOffice and use it as an
> external dependency.
Note that libkowmf only does WMF and my code only does EMF. They are similar, 
but not the same.

Converting libkowmf to do EMF was a possibility. I looked at the code, and 
found there are a few things that I didn't like, but GPL (instead of LGPL) 
looked the hardest to fix. Technical concerns were to do with the 
architecture (I really wanted to split out the parsing and rendering) and 
lack of sufficient WMF test cases to support safe refactoring.

Note that I'm not asking you to use it, just making it known that the code 
exists.

Brad

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