[cad-linux] Re: DWF conversions
- From: lee.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:26:50 -0700
Today will be even longer...
Well, it all started back when I first installed BeOS R3...
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Davis [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: September 10, 2002 10:31 PM
To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cad-linux] Re: DWF conversions
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.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: AJBIBB@xxxxxxx [mailto:AJBIBB@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: September 10, 2002 2:46 PM
>To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cad-linux] DWF conversions
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>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.
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>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.
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