[BATIK-560] Problem with converting WMF files to SVG Documents

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: SVGGraphics2D
• Environment: Operating System: Windows XP; Platform: PC
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Hervé Girod
• Created: 27/Jun/05 17:17
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 27/Jan/07 03:51

Description

It seems not possible to convert directly WMF files to SVG Documents. An
Exception is explicitely raised in WMFTranscoder if trying to do so. Further,
if trying to removed this Exception raising, the resulting SVG Document has no
content, appart for the svg root Element.

The cause of this problem seems in fact to be the getRoot() method in the
SVGGraphics2D class : the code is simply :
public Element getRoot()

{ return getRoot(null); }

which calls in the same class :
public Element getRoot(Element svgRoot)

{ svgRoot = domTreeManager.getRoot(svgRoot); ... return svgRoot; }

The DOMTreemanager creates a new svg Element in the tree, even if it already
exists. I think the code in SVGGraphics2D should be something like that :
public Element getRoot(){
Document doc = getDOMFactory();
Element elt = doc.getDocumentElement();
if (elt.getTagName().equals(SVGConstants.SVG_SVG_TAG)) return getRoot(elt);
else

{ NodeList list = elt.getElementsByTagName(SVGConstants.SVG_SVG_TAG); if ((list == null) || (list.getLength() == 0)) return getRoot(null); else return getRoot((Element)(list.item(0))); }

return getRoot(null);
}

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: BATIK-577 Enhancements in the wmf transcoder package