I'v tried to open 3 absolutely different WMF files - all of them was opened with dramatic mistakes.
And what is the use of developing product of such quality ?

Masha from Russia.

The same thing could be said about Illustrator and it's support for SVG, the so called "industry standard" can't view most of SVG fillters. What's the use of obsolete and closed format such as wmf anyway? Inkscape is SVG editor in the first place, and it's lame to blame it for sth it doesn't really pretend to do (isn't wmf importer from uniconvertor?), especially if you can use it for free.

...why so hostile? You just made me want to kick Russian people more.

Edit: I meant to say "evil Russians." I have no vendetta with regular/unleaded Russians.

@Nikvasko

Nice pointless rant. To give you idea:

1. Support for WMF in Corel DRAW: http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?n ... rt&page=03
2. Support for WMF in AI: http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?n ... rt&page=04

Are you sure you would say the same about them?

[ru]Мария, умерьте пыл пожалуйста. Inkscape позиционируется как редактор SVG, а не как редактор WMF. Вы выбрали не тот инструмент, так что претензии несколько не по адресу [/ru]

@SureWhyNot

Be careful and polite, you never know what RU contributors and developers of Inkscape are present here.

I'v tried to open 3 absolutely different WMF files - all of them was opened with dramatic mistakes.
And what is the use of developing product of such quality ?

Perhaps Inkscape has trouble in this area because it isn't often needed or requested thus it lacks the functionality. It is my opinion that WMF just might be an ugly format to begin with. Maybe you could research external tools that could convert the WMF to something Inkscape understands. Either SVG or maybe PDF. There are converters out there and many are free. Use it as a bridge into Inkscape...see what happens.

Quite honestly, I am not even sure what WMF is good for. I have no experience with that format.

Wondering: Does even Gimp support WMF? Hmm...

@SureWhyNot
I'm awfully sorry I was really hostile. But everybody can understand me: my problem was to transform WMF format; I'v run against Inkscape by chance; in description there was declared WMF as input format; I spent an hour to understand-prepare everthing and have got up the zero.
Is not it fairly to remove WMF from the input in place of speculation about

obsolete and closed format such as wmf

?
By the way, SureWhyNot, you arnt too respectful also.

[ru] Prokoudine, спасибо за попытку помочь. [/ru]

The wmf is the favorite clipart-format for Windows / MS Office. I`ve no problem opening wmf in Inkscape. It works fine with Open Office Draw also.
If you still have problems send me the files and i convert it to svg, ok?

How to ask questions the smart way - Hostile questions will get you hostile answers.

A thread about WMF support already exists which might have some additional information for you here - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1254&p=6192&hilit=wmf#p6144

Note that I'm pretty sure the online PDF convertor I link to in that thread can convert your images to PDF so you can then open them in Inkscape.

Thanks to everybody

Masha

Nikvasko wrote:@SureWhyNot
I'm awfully sorry I was really hostile. But everybody can understand me: my problem was to transform WMF format;

Let's start with this:

1. What version of Inkscape do you have?
2. Which OS do you use?

For instance, if you run Inkscape 0.46 on Windows, you are likely to have a broken WMF import. If you run Inkscape 0.46 on Linux and you have recent UniConverter (1.1.2) installed, it should work better for you.

Just saying it didn't work for you doesn't change anything. Telling what exactly didn't work and providing samples is the first step to changes. Even if Inkscape isn't responsible for import quality now, since it relies on UniConvertor which is a separate project.

I never can stop suggesting all people when trying to export documents from one application to another (and specially to and from Inkscape), to use a .txt based format, just like .svg or .ai (even as i know the earlier .svg support of CorelDraw were not that default from w3c as used on Inkscape) - is extremelly easy to know what may go wrong working on .txt based documents, than with closed binary documents.
I'm not specificly criticizing CorelDraw... That very known and excellent Freehand (from Aldus/Altsys/Macromedia/Adobe), uses the .fh(x) format (.fh1 to .fh11), which is also a binary closed format as well, but it's excellent on exporting to .ai format, btw...
Otherwise, as Inkscape is open-source, i think every people may have problems on exporting/importing documents, could be kind on sharing with us some open examples (like with cc-nc-sa licence) with all needed explanations on what were happened, having this kind of problems for the developers can help on finding the solution for it