Update June 10, 2014

Hi Everyone,

I am working on implementing the import filter from the start of May and till now following are achieved :

• Reverse Engineered about the encoding of various shapes ( line, rectangle, polygon, ellipse)  in the pmd file format, using oletoy.
• Parsing of various shape transformations such as Rotation and Skew.
  
• Implementation of proper geometry and output the shapes to open document format.
• Rotation and Skew is implemented for the shapes. So, that basic skeleton of all the shapes are ready.
• Fill and Stroke are reverse engineered and parsing is done.
• Solid Fill and Normal Stroke for shapes are output properly.
  
  
  Some issues :
• Ellipse Skew Output is not perfect yet.
• Fill patterns are to be implemented. ( Bars, Tilted lines, Grids etc.)
• Stroke patterns are to be implemented. ( Dashed array, multi line stroke etc.)
• Stroke are not output properly, Pagemaker  stroke overlaps the shape where as open document format adds stroke on the outside the shape. ( To reproduce the problem , try a custom stroke on a rectangle with width 40pt and then convert).
• Fill doesn't work fine for open polygon.
  
  
  
  
  What's Next :
• I am fixing the issues mentioned above.
• Working on implementing the text boxes and probably by the week end (  June 15, 2014) , it will be done.

You can find a pagemaker file and a converted odg file here :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3anq4lr6u9dxyfx/fills.pmd

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1w3lki6warxky1t/fills.odg


Cheers