Is it possible for Inkscape to export an illustration to the ISO CGM format? If not directly, is there a plugin available that could make this happen? I have a customer who insists on all illustrations being delivered with our documentation must also be separately included in the CGM format conforming to ISO/IEC standard 8632:1999 Parts 1, 3, and 4.

Everyone, thank you in advance for your assistance.


Bruce

bruceam wrote:Is it possible for Inkscape to export an illustration to the ISO CGM format?

CGM is not available as Export format in current Inkscape versions.

bruceam wrote:If not directly, is there a plugin available that could make this happen?

Looking at the import extension for "Computer Graphics Metafile files (.cgm)" it turns out that Inkscape uses 'UniConvertor' for the conversion. If 'UniConvertor' also supports CGM as output format, it should be possibly to create a corresponding Inkscape export extension for CGM as well. You might consider filing a feature request in Inkscape's bug tracker to add CGM as UniConvertor-based output extension.

Please note that the quality of the resulting files would depend entirely on UniConvertor's supported features - you might test to convert some of your SVGs calling UniConvertor directly on the command line, to see if it even makes sense to propose it as Inkscape export extension.