170703 - support WMF images

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

currently we dont support WMF images. It could be nice if we did. Perhaps some
kind of plug-in for ImageLib

http://gemal.dk/browserspy/images.html

20020924

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

WMF is no standard and isn't that good a vector graphics format. Focusing on SVG
support makes more sense, IMO.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 3

[WD]

*** Bug 173624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Olaf]

still no .wmf support in 1.3.1?

Comment 5

[Alessandro Minelli]

Mark this as wontfix?

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 306154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Ken Wagnitz]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WMF is no standard and isn't that good a vector graphics format. Focusing on
> SVG
> support makes more sense, IMO.
> 

Yes, SVG should be supported.  But WMF has been around a long time.  There are plenty of clipart libraries with their cartoon images in WMF form.  It is head-in-the-sand stuff to ignore a file format just because it was invented by the Evil Empire.  Should open source products only support 'good' formats?  Pretty subjective judgement I'd say.

Comment 8

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 336430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Charli Li (winsxs)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Yes, SVG should be supported.  But WMF has been around a long time.  There are
> plenty of clipart libraries with their cartoon images in WMF form.

You're right, WMF is an image format.  WMF stands for Windows MetaFile.

BTW---does any image filter used by GNU support WMF?

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 11

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Not interested in this for the core. If someone wants to write an extension, ping bholley on irc and I'll help you out.

Resolving WONTFIX.