Re: Windows Metafiles
Sir, I have used "The GIMP", on a Windows Machine. I would try that. I'm sure it can cut and paste just fine ;)
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:19:12 +0930
Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL
> development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any
> reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a
> Latex document, and am having all sorts of grief. I would prefer it
> to be a vector graphics format than a bitmap (vg always looks nicer).
>
> First I tried printing the document to a file, in the belief that this
> would give me postscript, but gs, gv and ps2pdf all barf on it with
> the message:
>
> Error: /syntaxerror in -file-
> Operand stack:
>
> Execution stack:
> %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
> --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3
> %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop
> .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2
> %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
> --dict:1037/1476(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:67/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 425
> GNU Ghostscript 6.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> If anyone cal tell me what that means I would appreciate it. So next
> I tried copying it to the clipboard. It seems that it keeps the image
> there as a Windows Metafile (WMF). But I can't find anything to paste
> it into that will save it as a useful format. I can paste it into
> Word, but that won't export it further. Also if I try printing it to
> file from word I get the same issue as above. Windows clipboard
> viewer can save it, but that is as some .clp file.
>
> I am greatly frustrated by this. Google doesn't seem to have any
> answers. Is there a way of opening the windows clipboard files
> (*.clp) in linux? Or does anyone know of a free 'doze app that can
> grab the contents of the clipboard and save it as some useful vector
> format (EPS would be nice...)
>
> TIA,
> Tom
> --
> Tom Cook
> Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide
>
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>
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>
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