Re: [SLE] PDF to EMF converter?

From: Alexandr Malusek (Alexandr.Malusek_at_imv.liu.se)
Date: 07/28/04

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:57:22 +0200

    Danny Sauer <suse-linux-e.suselists@danny.teleologic.net> writes:

    >> Is there a PDF to EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) converter which runs on
    >> Linux?
    >>
    >> On Linux, I can produce figures in EPS or PDF. I'd like to see them
    >> in OpenOffice.org or MS-Word documents. A conversion to EMF seems
    >> possible but all converters that I've found run on MS-Windows only.
    >
    > It doesn't apear to support EMF, but check out the formats supported
    > by ImageMagick (man ImageMagick). If one of those formats will work
    > for you (SVG is in there, for example), you can just do
    > convert file.pdf file.svg
    > at the command line.

    I'm not aware of any other formats for vector graphics than WMF and
    EMF which are supported by both MS-Word and OpenOffice.org (in the
    sense that figures are visible). I can produce SVG files directly
    from ROOT (http://root.cern.ch/) but OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 cannot read
    them.

    > Alternatively, there's a program listed on freshmeat called pstoedit
    > which will convert PS and PDF to several other formats, including
    > EMF.

    Pstoedit has been around for many years, I used it with xfig 10 years
    ago ... I just didn't know it supports MS formats.

    To my surprise, it converted my EPS files to EMF relatively well, I've
    only noticed one wrong line. The EMF files can be imported to OOo and
    are visible in the document. I'll see if the conversion is usable for
    production work but, anyway, it was a good tip. 

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A.M.
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