[softwarelist] Re: PDF import into OPW

Clive Bonsall wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:13:02 -0000, <andy.ling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Does anyone know of a pdf reader for Windows that can save/export as
Acorn draw files?


Not draw format, but I have been playing with an application called
InkScape
It can read and edit PDF files and save in a variety of common Windows
formats. It is free and available from http://www.inkscape.org/
Thanks. I hadn't looked at InkScape in a while ... it seems to have improved a lot. It does save in a good range of formats, but I think only certain bitmaps and eps (+ pdf) can be imported into OPW. I notice that the InkScape save box has an option to "enable preview". If this is checked before saving as EPS and the resulting EPS file is dropped into an OPW frame, then no preview appears ... just a grey rectangle (the same applies to EPS output from other programs, e.g. Acrobat). OPW is capable of importing WMF, whereas InkScape exports as EMF but not WMF. I was intrigued to see what would happen if I saved an InkScape file as EMF with "enable preview" checked, and then dropped the EMF into OPW ... the preview bitmap appears, but on printing the page is blank.
I'm curious to know why OPW displays the preview bitmap image associated with an unsupported filetype (EMF) but not a supported filetype (EPS)?
Apologies ... I see OPW does support EMF. I assumed it didn't since it didn't like the InkScape offering. 

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