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Help Using Inkscape => Using Inkscape with Other Apps => Topic started by: chmike on October 13, 2016, 04:20:35 AM

Title: images exported to wmf don't display dashes when inserted in Word
Post by: chmike on October 13, 2016, 04:20:35 AM

I have created an SVG figure with Inkscape 0.91 on Linux that contains dashed lines. When I save the figure in the WMF format and import the figure in MacOS Word 15.24 (2016),  all dashed lines are displayed as solid lines.

When I save the SVG image as WMF a dialog is shown with various options. I made sure that the option to convert dashed lines to solid lines is unchecked.

How can I have dashed lines displayed as dashed in Word (WMF) ?

Title: Re: images exported to wmf don't display dashes when inserted in Word
Post by: chmike on October 13, 2016, 05:08:52 AM

Answering to my own question.

After further testings, I found out that if I select the checkbox specifying to convert dashed lines into solid lines, all dashed lines remain displayed as dashed lines in Word (macOs).

So there is a bug in the options when saving to WMF. The default should be to preserve dashed lines. The value of this option flag is interpreted in inverse sense. 

Title: Re: images exported to wmf don't display dashes when inserted in Word
Post by: Moini on October 14, 2016, 11:26:07 AM

The option is 'convert dashed / dotted lines to single lines' (and what it means is it converts them to paths, I assume, using the 'stroke-to-path' feature). I agree the text could be clearer. You could make this a bug report in the bugs section for Inkscape at lauchpad, and suggest a better phrasing, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape.