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diff --git a/drawinglayer/README.md b/drawinglayer/README.md index 04ebcadf0b17..9eb7057d2a37 100644 --- a/drawinglayer/README.md +++ b/drawinglayer/README.md @@ -82,3 +82,20 @@ printing), etc. above) * Custom widgets (like the Header / Footer indicator button) + +## Dumping DrawingLayer Primitives as XML + +For debugging purposes, it is possible to dump the drawinglayer primitives as +an xml file. The drawinglayer xml dump can show possible problems with the +rendering. + +For example, in `emfio/qa/cppunit/emf/EmfImportTest.cxx`, one can write: + + Primitive2DSequence aSequence = parseEmf(u"emfio/qa/cppunit/wmf/data/stockobject.emf"); + drawinglayer::Primitive2dXmlDump dumper; + Primitive2DContainer aContainer(aSequence); + dumper.dump(aContainer, "/tmp/drawyinglayer.xml"); + +Then, after invoking `make CppunitTest_emfio_emf`, `/tmp/drawyinglayer.xml` will +be the dump of the drawinglayer primitives used to draw the emf file in +LibreOffice. The top level tag will be <primitive2D>. |