No Rendering of WMFs

Does gdk-pixbuf support wmf files?

- Mike

Yes, gdk-pixbuf supports WMF files so long as libwmf is installed. There appeared to be a similar issue reported at bugs.debian.org/263911; I do have libwmf installed, and it contains a loader... but it doesn't seem to work. Running gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders shows the following:

"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/io-wmf.so"
"wmf" 0 "gtk20" "Windows Metafile"
"image/x-wmf" ""
"wmf" "apm" ""
"\327\315\306\232" "" 100
"\001" "" 100

I've tried to open the attached WMF in gthumb, but I see nothing, not even an error message. (The file opens properly in Gimp.) I don't know of any other gdk-pixbuf applications, so I can't tell if this is a problem with gThumb's use of the available loaders, gdk-pixbuf's provision of said loaders, or libwmf's loader itself. I can say that it should definitely work given my installation, so I'm marking this as confirmed, though it may need to be applied to a different package.

The test file works on Fedora 8 + gThumb 2.10.8, so it is probably not a gThumb issue. (I do not have a Ubuntu install.)

- Mike

I wonder why this item has received so little attention... as said before, I have over 10,000 WMFs and nothing in Ubuntu can render them.

So it's not a gThunb issue and likely not a Nautilus one either... something is not hooked up to the libwmf file in Ubuntu?

Adam, WMFs were rendered in Feisty and Edgy, they stopped in Gutsy. That might be a clue. They don't work yet in Hardy. Any help is greatly appreciated! <smile>

Still present in Hardy.

Reassigning to gdk-pixbuf, as it seems to affect both gThumb and eog.

Still present in Intrepid. gThumb hangs, and eog just reports "Unrecognized image file format". (I'm using the latter, because it links to libgdk_pixbuf as well, and it prints an actual error message.)

As a workaround, you might consider using wmf2svg to convert them to a format that the tools can understand (it's still a vector format). It's in the libwmf-bin package. Go to a directory containing some WMFs and execute the following shell command (everything following the first $):

$ mkdir svg; for i in *.wmf; do echo [$i]; wmf2svg --inline $i > svg/${i%%.wmf}.svg; done

If the WMF extension is uppercase, do the following instead:

$ mkdir svg; for i in *.WMF; do echo [$i]; wmf2svg --inline $i > svg/${i%%.WMF}.svg; done

Additionally, you can use the wmf2x program to view your WMFs. I know this isn't ideal, but it *is* a workaround until someone can figure out what's gone wrong here.

Well, GIMP seems to have a solution, as it can read WMFs just fine. They may have their own code.

All this came about when 7.04 became 7.10. It would seem to be a lib not being attached or loaded correctly.

Pray, we get relief soon.

Seems to work now, assuming this is long since fixed.

I have over 10,000 WMFs and have no trouble
using them, for the last two years.
frank

On 11/16/2014 06:43 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
> Seems to work now, assuming this is long since fixed.
>
> ** Changed in: gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>