NAME¶
fig2sxd - utility to convert .fig to .sxd
SYNOPSIS¶
fig2sxd [-w] [-l(ine)w(idth)1 l] figfile sxdfile
DESCRIPTION¶
The program tries to convert the given file in xfig format into a sxd file for
OpenOffice.org Draw. If figfile ends with
.fig or
.xfig and
sxdfile is omitted, the output file will be named like figfile ending with
.sxd instead of
.(x)fig. Using
- for
figfile makes
the program read from stdin so that it is possible to use
pstoedit -f fig
file.ps - | fig2sxd -
file.sxd
to convert ps files. (For files with many objects you might want to use
something like
pstoedit -f
'fig:-startdepth 9999' file.ps - | fig2sxd -
file.sxd
to get more layers; the output of pstoedit then is no longer a valid xfig file,
but it makes the z ordering of the objects in OpenOffice.org Draw stay
correct.) Using
- for
sxdfile makes the program write to stdout.
With the
-linewidth1 (or
-lw1) option, the width of lines with
thickness 1 in xfig can be set, unit is 1 cm. Using 0 here gives fine lines.
Example:
pstoedit -f
'fig:-startdepth 9999' file.ps - | fig2sxd -lw1 0 -
file.sxd
With the
-w option, out-of-specification values are only warnings but
will be sanitized.
DEFICIENCIES¶
Not all of the .fig objects are converted correctly: splines look quite similar,
but are not exactly the same; text placement might be a little bit wrong,
especially for very small font sizes; hatches look different in many cases;
hollow arrows are not supported and replaced by their filled counterparts.
There are various other things that could be improved.
It looks like OpenOffice.org cannot read xml attribute values longer than 64kB
as they might appear for very long polygons/-lines. For unfilled polylines,
fig2sxd therefore creates several smaller polylines of 500 points each and
groups them together. Splitting an arbitrary filled polygon is not trivial and
not implemented.
SEE ALSO¶
pstoedit(1),
xfig(1) and
http://fig2sxd.sourceforge.net/
(for updates).
AUTHOR¶
Program and manual page were written by Alexander Bürger
<acfb@users.sourceforge.net>.