Converter from eps to wmf format?

[Paul Smith]

On 3/9/07, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've stumbled across a SVG importer for OO, but it appears to require
> > Java 5 (aka jre 1.5 a la Sun).  This page has links to the importer
> > and bugs related to SVG and OO:
> > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter
>
> In case anyone is interested, the SVG importer seemes to work with
> Java 6 (aka jre 1.6) on FC6. The bin+rpm installs into /usr/java.
> One must then go into the options of OO, select "Java" and pick the
> new JRE. (fairly painless)
>
> After that, one can open this test svg file (a psuedo-benchmark) in OO:
> http://www.linuxrising.org/importsvg/gearflowers.svg
>
> And it will look like the this - a *vast* improvement over any other
> method of importing that I've tried:
> http://cr33.is-a-geek.com/random/Screenshot.png
>
> OO will then open the example SVG provided by PS earlier in the thread
> [1], but the main problem seems to be that paths in OO are not
> smoothed (aka antialiased) at all.  Lest we despair, work is being
> done to convert the drawing functions in OO over to cairo and XCanvas:
> http://blogs.sun.com/thorsten/entry/first_impression_draw_on_cairocanvas
>
> Something to look forward to, at least.
>
> Chris
>
> [1] Text must be converted to a path in Inkscape before it will open
> correctly in OO.

Thanks, Chris. Yes, the the conversions with the SVG_Import_Filter
loose the smoothness of the paths.

Paul