Re: Conversion PDF->WMF
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:32:02 -0500, Gregory Seidman
<gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
> The program in question is MS SQL Server's Enterprise Manager, and the
> diagrams are tables with foreign key constraints. There is no way to save
> it as anything other than part of the database as a whole, which is why I
> said it has no export capabilities (see above).
Can you extract the data that you want into an Excel spreadsheet? You
could then import that into OpenOffice, generate the diagrams, and
export to EMF.
> There are two reasons to do it in Linux. The first is that everything I can
> show my supervisors/bosses/customers can be done in a better/faster/easier
> way on Linux is good for advocacy. The second is that I am much more likely
> to find free tools to do what I need from the FOSS world than on Windows. I
> am fairly certain that I can find an export-to-whatever plugin for Acrobat,
> but I am also fairly certain that it would cost money; there is no budget
> available for such things.
It just seems like (in this case) printing to a file, converting that
to PDF, and then generating another format readable by Word makes
Linux appear to be more complex than the comparable result in Windows.
I'm all for advocacy, but you don't want it to back-fire. If the
OpenOffice route works, I'd say that's sufficient from an advocacy
perspective, since you'll have shown that an open source tool is at
least the equivalent of the MS tool.
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
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