WMF load in GIMP?

William Kendrick

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Dec 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/2/98

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My work as a webmaster has given me cause to get a clipart collection.
(My boss has MasterClips 330,000 from IMSI, so work got that for me.)

Well, I can read off the CD's, but unfortunately, most of the clipart is
in Windows MetaFile format (WMF, a vector format). I'm, of course, using
Linux. :)

Are there any utilities or plug-ins that'll let me actually DO something
with these files? The closest I found was something in Python, but it didn't
work when I tried it and the author chalked it up to a bug.

In the meantime, I can use my roommate's Windows95 box (eww!) I suppose,
but it'd be oh-so-nice to be able to open these directly.

Anyone have any pointers, or am I just out of luck?

Thanks!

-bill!
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Zach Beane

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Dec 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/2/98

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In article <743vvv$jeu$1...@ultra.sonic.net>, William Kendrick wrote:
>My work as a webmaster has given me cause to get a clipart collection.
>(My boss has MasterClips 330,000 from IMSI, so work got that for me.)
>
>Well, I can read off the CD's, but unfortunately, most of the clipart is
>in Windows MetaFile format (WMF, a vector format). I'm, of course, using
>Linux. :)
>
>Are there any utilities or plug-ins that'll let me actually DO something
>with these files? The closest I found was something in Python, but it didn't
>work when I tried it and the author chalked it up to a bug.

Tor Lillqvist wrote a WMF loading plugin. You can get it from the GIMP
Plugin Registry at http://registry.gimp.org/ (direct url is
http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=wmf).

Zach
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Johannes Zahn

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Dec 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/2/98

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n...@sonic.net (William Kendrick) writes:

> Well, I can read off the CD's, but unfortunately, most of the clipart is
> in Windows MetaFile format (WMF, a vector format). I'm, of course, using
> Linux. :)

> Anyone have any pointers, or am I just out of luck?

Yes, there is a Plugin available at the Plugin-Registry

http://registry.gimp.org/

or directly at

http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/wmf/

(this may be newer). Works for me.

hth

johannes

Tor Lillqvist

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Dec 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/4/98

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xa...@moonstone.mint.net (Zach Beane) writes:
> Tor Lillqvist wrote a WMF loading plugin. You can get it from the GIMP
> Plugin Registry at http://registry.gimp.org/ (direct url is
> http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=wmf).

And, if you try it, and notice that it can't handle some of your wmf
files, I would be interested in getting a copy of that file.

great...@sharktooth.org

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Dec 3, 2015, 3:06:18 PM12/3/15

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I know it's been forever since you posted this. I'm looking for the GIMP 2.8 plugin for opening WMF files. I have some huge architecture files that I would love to edit in Gimp. The previous links no longer work. What are my options?

Jernej Simončič

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Dec 3, 2015, 6:00:24 PM12/3/15

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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:06:16 -0800 (PST), great...@sharktooth.org wrote:

> I know it's been forever since you posted this. I'm looking for the GIMP 2.8 plugin for opening WMF files. I have some huge architecture files that I would love to edit in Gimp. The previous links no longer work. What are my options?

WMF loader should be included with GIMP.

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