Re: Fwd: [libredwg] how can i contribute

[Felipe Sanches]

Thanks a lot!

But these tests are not distributable with LibreDWG due to the CC
by-nc license, which is non-free. Please choose a free license. Or
even better, please just release the files to the public domain.

Felipe Sanches

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks to guruprasad rane , we have test files online:
> http://ia341311.us.archive.org/3/items/LibredwgTestSuite0.1/LibredwgTestSuite0.1.tar.gz
> just checking them myself.
> mike
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> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jake Abel <address@hidden> wrote:
>> There are several pre-2000 versions (R12, R13, R14, earlier) but modern
>> AutoCAD can only open R14, R2000 (15), R2004 (16), R2007 (17) and R2010
>> (18).  R12 DXFs can be imported if desired.  There is a new version of the
>> program every year, but a change in file formats is only made when the
>> program really goes to the next major version every three years (typically),
>> for instance, 2007 is R17, 2008 is R17.1, 2009 is R17.2 and 2010 is R18.
>>
>> In my opinion, supporting anything before R2000 is a complete waste of
>> time...that's the oldest you ever see in a work environment.
>>
>> -Jake
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: address@hidden
>> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
>> Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva
>> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:14 AM
>> To: address@hidden; address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: [libredwg] how can i contribute
>>
>> address@hidden wrote:
>>> It looks like he has been able to convert the svg test suite!
>>
>> Ok, but we should let him know that we only (are planning to) support R13,
>> R14, R2000, R2004 and R2007. I don't even know if R2002 or R2006 exist.
>> Maybe they are just AutoCAD versions but not file format versions.
>>
>> BTW, please explain me how are you planning to use this Inkscape test suite.
>> Are you planning to use just the sample, or is there an automated test suite
>> that we can take advantage of someway?
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: *Guruprasad Rane* <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>>> Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [libredwg] how can i contribute
>>> To: "address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>"
>>> <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried using Inkscape to convert svg to dxf. But unfortunately all
>>> the dxf files generated were blank.
>>>
>>> So I used Corel Draw to convert all the svg files directly to dwg
>>> files in R11, R13, R14, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 & 2007 format. I
>>> modified the CorelDraw fileconverter macro to add DWG support and
>>> batch converted the file. But the total file size is 750MB. Its
>>> because all the texts are converted to arcs  while doing batch
>>> convert. If individual files are converted text remain as text. I am
>> trying to fix this up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 19:57 +0100, address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > yes
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Guruprasad Rane
>>> > <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>> >         OK
>>> >
>>> >         1. So I should extract svg files from all the links on this
>>> >         page
>>> >
>>> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20061213/htmlObjectHarness/full-in
>>> dex.html
>>> >
>>> >         2. then convert each of them to dxf
>>> >
>>> >         3. then convert each of them to all dwg formats.
>>> >
>>> >         So we will have say folders like r14, 2000, 2004, and so on
>>> >         with each folder with 275 dwg files.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >         On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 19:35 +0100,
>>> >         address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
>>> >         > I have tried it out,
>>> >         > you can open the svg test suite here:
>>> >         >
>>> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Test_Suite_Overview#SVG_1.1_Tes
>>> t_Suite
>>> >         >
>>> >         > with inkscape you can save to dxf,
>>> >         >
>>> >         > then we can use some windows program to convert that into
>>> >         > all the dwg formats
>>> >         > and then we have a nice test suite.
>>> >         >
>>> >         > mike
>>> >         >
>>> >         > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:09 PM,
>>> >         > address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>
>>> >         > <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>> >         >         my suggestion :
>>> >         >         you can help me make a test suite of files.
>>> >         >         we need to convert some other dxf and svg test
>>> >         >         suites into various dwg files for testing.
>>> >         >         mike
>>> >         >
>>> >         >         On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Guruprasad Rane
>>> >         >         <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>> >         >                 Hi everyone
>>> >         >
>>> >         >                 please let me know how can i contribute to
>>> >         >                 the development of libredwg?
>>> >         >
>>> >         >                 Regards
>>> >         >
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