DXF Support

[elisegev]

Hi,

Is there any plan to support the DXF format with ImageMagick?

[Bonzo]

I was wondering the same thing last week elisegev; I wanted to convert a dxf to pdf. I tried saving the dxf as a tiff and converted that to pdf. The quality was terrible with very jagged lines.
In the end I found a program that "Prints to pdf".

[anthony]

DXF is a vector format. It is not a good thing to handle vector formats in IM. There are however DXF to raster format convertors, and these could be added as 'delegates' to IM for it to use automatically...

See what little info I have on delegates at...
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#delegates

If you know of a DXF to raster converter, and generate a delegate to use it, contribute it to the developers mail list or forum so it can be included into the delegates.xml file of the distributed IM. That way everyone can do it with out needing to know the details beyond 'install this'. Just a ghostscript is needed for postscript and PDF handling.