Convert svm image (StarView Metafile) to png?

Question

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I pulled out a lot of SVM images from the ODT documents with a PHP script (as I understand it, this is the StarView Metafile).
I can't find a way to convert these images to any other format.
Is it possible to convert it automatically somehow, even if not using PHP?

Answer 1

Found a solution.
It turns out there is an article on Habré about converting with a python script through the installed openoffice: http://habrahabr.ru/post/97637/
I didn’t read it to the end right away, as a result of which I had a lot of questions about how to run this script under OSX.
As a result, I will give a small solution to the problems, maybe it will help someone.
Download the DocumentConverter.py file from here .
The result is the following errors, in the order they are corrected:
ImportError: No module named uno.
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/pyuno.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
ERROR! Binary URP bridge disposed during call
Error due to invalid paths, now create a convert.sh script to run it:

#!/bin/bash


export PATH=/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS:$PATH

export URE_BOOTSTRAP=vnd.sun.star.pathname:/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/fundamentalrc
export UNO_PATH=/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/ure-link/lib/
export PYTHONPATH=/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS:$PYTHONPATH
PYTHON="/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/OOoPython.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python"

OFFICE="/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice"


$OFFICE --norestore --nofirststartwizard --nologo --headless "--accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" &

sleep 5s

$PYTHON DocumentConverter.py $1 $2

Now you can convert by simply writing ./convert.sh file1.odt file2.html The svm
pictures will lie side by side in gif format.
But I went further and read the article on Habré to the end, which talked about another unoconv wrapper script. Download the sources from here http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/#download , they contain the unoconv python script.
Now you can convert even simple svm pictures with the command

unoconv -f png mypath/*.svm

Answer 2

See what they write: ingwa2.blogspot.ru/2011/05/starview-metafiles-in-calligra.html
The SVM format didn't even have a normal specification, you can't find the means to import from it in the daytime.
Try to convert these entire ODT documents by any ready-made tool, and at least to PDF, and cut out the pictures from there.

Answer 3

And I’ll throw off the link with a great delay (I had to write a tool for work), a converter plugin for Node.js
https://www.npmjs.com/package/svmconv
^_^