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Re: [Sheflug] Windows graphics formats



José Luis Gómez Dans  wrote:
[...]
    OK, OK, I _know_ what I wrote, but I am answering to myself
here... I'll re-state the nature of the problem, and will then
consider a proposed solution

PROBLEM:
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    How on Earth do you get EPS files on to Word documents in Windows,
    so that at least you can do some editing?

PROPOSED METHODOLOGY:
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    Well, it seems that there is a graphics format which goes by the
    name of CGM which allows you to do some of this. As far as I'm
    aware, you can't edit the actual graph, but you can edit the text
    in it. Well, the good news is that it is really straightforward to
    come up with reasonably good jobs by using xfig, which exports
    directly to cgm. I tend to use xfig, but if you are used to
    dealing with eps/ps files, you can convert them into fig format
    (using pstoedit), and then using xfig's converter back-end
    (fig2dev), you can convert them to CGM.


Of course, there's room for improvement, we all know that, but I am
really pleased. Also, on a side note, the libwmf deveopment team are
working into a framework to convert from *->WMF. The problem is that
it is not yet finished. On a local note, the main developer is based
at Sheffield University :-)

    A much more relieved José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
FAX; +44 870 132 2990			Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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