On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Saturday 20 January 2007 00:20, Paul M Foster wrote:
>> Eben King wrote:
>>> I really doubt that there is a "RISC OS archive" and a "Computer
>>> Graphics Metafile" on there.
>>
>> FWIW, CGM (computer graphics metafile) is an old graphics format. Can't
>> recall the programs that used it. Draw Perfect? Corel Draw?
>
> It's an open graphics format that any number of programs can read. Well,
> could read. I think it went out of fashion. Back in its days most graphics
> and many word processors supported it. But I think it's safe to say it
> past away.
>
> I know of no modern program that supports it. But when I google for it I
> found CadView does, Treeplot is a conversion tool that does..
There's no genuine CGM file that needs to be translated. "file" is lying in
this case. But if you're just interested in knowledge, hey, don't let me
stop you.
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