NAME

       fig2sxd - utility to convert .fig to .sxd

SYNOPSIS

       fig2sxd [-w] [-l(ine)w(idth)1 l] [-stylebase s] figfile sxdfile

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  tries  to convert the given file in xfig format into a sxd file for OpenOffice.org Draw. If
       figfile ends with .fig or .xfig and sxdfile is omitted, the output file will be named like figfile ending
       with .sxd instead of .(x)fig.  Using - for figfile makes the program  read  from  stdin  so  that  it  is
       possible to use

              pstoedit -f fig file.ps - | fig2sxd - file.sxd

       to convert ps files. (For files with many objects you might want to use something like

              pstoedit -f 'fig:-startdepth 9999' file.ps - | fig2sxd - file.sxd

       to  get  more  layers;  the  output  of  pstoedit then is no longer a valid xfig file, but it makes the z
       ordering of the objects in OpenOffice.org Draw stay correct.) Using - for sxdfile makes the program write
       to stdout. With the -linewidth1 (or -lw1) option, the width of lines with thickness 1 in xfig can be set,
       unit is 1 cm. Using 0 here gives fine lines. Example:

              pstoedit -f 'fig:-startdepth 9999' file.ps - | fig2sxd -lw1 0 - file.sxd

       With the -w option, out-of-specification values are only  warnings  but  will  be  sanitized.   With  the
       -stylebase  option,  the  prefix  of  the  generated style names can be changed.  This might be useful to
       prevent mixing styles from several converted figures that are joined in one OpenOffice.org document.  The
       argument to -stylebase must consist of 4..255 alphanumeric characters.

DEFICIENCIES

       Not  all of the .fig objects are converted correctly: splines look quite similar, but are not exactly the
       same; text placement might be a little bit wrong, especially for very  small  font  sizes;  hatches  look
       different in many cases; hollow arrows are not supported and replaced by their filled counterparts. There
       are various other things that could be improved.

       It  looks  like OpenOffice.org cannot read xml attribute values longer than 64kB as they might appear for
       very long polygons/-lines. For unfilled polylines, fig2sxd therefore creates several smaller polylines of
       500 points each and groups them together. Splitting an arbitrary filled polygon is not  trivial  and  not
       implemented.

SEE ALSO

       pstoedit(1), xfig(1) and http://fig2sxd.sourceforge.net/ (for updates).

AUTHOR

       Program and manual page were written by Alexander Bürger <acfb@users.sourceforge.net>.

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