You've had a long day Lee... Glad to see some Linux interest at Autodesk. Are you a Linux guy that joined them or an Autodesk guy getting interested in Linux? lee.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >Regarding 2: The DWF is more like and electronic plot than a DWG, which may >explain how it appears in the OpenDWG tool(view)kit. DWF is an electronic >archiving format -- that is, it contains only the information the author >chooses to publish (unlike a DWG). It's better than rasters (TIFF, JPG, etc.) >because it is vectors; is much smaller than a PDF; searchable; indexable; etc. >etc. etc. Once a DWG is converted to DWF, it is basically impossible to get >back to a usable DWG. > >That sounds like marketing, but I'm just trying to be informative. > >-----Original Message----- >From: AJBIBB@xxxxxxx [mailto:AJBIBB@xxxxxxx] >Sent: September 10, 2002 2:46 PM >To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [cad-linux] DWF conversions > > > >2) DWF: The openDWG alliance does have an interface module that can be >downloaded which is supposed to interface with the sources that need to be >downloaded from Autodesk to provide DWF input and output. I note that the >module is part of the Viewkit, not the Toolkit, so whatever input and output >occurs from this module will deal with pixels on the screen and not the >underlying structure of the DWG file. > >3) How to do it: I don't think there are really any licensing issues here. >Basically Autodesk still holds the license to their piece, I just write a GPL >code to interface with it. OpenDWG also provides a script file to convert >source code (I am not sure if it is theirs or Autodesk's) into something >that Linux can handle. When I saw that I kind of said "I don't need this >right now", I have my hands full just trying to get the program to compile >for users of gcc 3x. There seems to be enough interest however so I can >certainly put it on the list of things to get to. I was about ready to >declare this project done, but I should be able to deal with one more piece. > > > >