====== Introduction ======
**DHW** file format is used by the [[http://www.acecad.com.tw/index.php/products/digital-notepad-with-memory/digimemo-a402|DigiMemo]] A402/A502 from [[http://www.acecad.com.tw/|ACECAD]]. To make this proprietary format viewable or even editable under Linux an appropriate converter software is necessary. Fortunately conversion is simple and can be done with the help of a few lines of perl code as demonstrated by E.T.E.S. After several iterations by different authors it is now possible to convert into PDF, PS, DIA and XOJ.

====== Contribution ======
  * Jan Theofel --> original author
  * Harald Koenig --> original author
  * Jörg Ostertag --> Added 'dia' Support
  * Armin Taschwer --> Added 'xournal' support

====== History ======
  * first Version provides a dhw to ps/pdf conversion
    * **dhw2ps** at [[http://www.etes.de/downloads/digimemo-a501/|E.T.E.S]]
  * second version added [[http://live.gnome.org/Dia|Dia]] support to the conversion tool
    * **dhw2dia** at [[http://www.ostertag.name/HowTo/digimemo/index.shtml|Ostertag]]
  * third version (now released under v0.1.2) added the conversion opportunity to [[http://xournal.sourceforge.net/|Xournal]]

====== Features ======


====== Download ======
still no real license available, maybe next version will arrive with GPLv2 .. please contact me and I'll try to create a new version (need some motivation ;) )

====== Installation ======

  * copy the main file ''dhw2vec.pl'' to a directory which is already included in your ''$PATH'' environment variable. Usually ''$HOME/bin''.
  * change to this directory and create some symbolic links
    * ''ln -s dhw2vec.pl dhw2pdf''
    * ''ln -s dhw2vec.pl dhw2via''
    * ''ln -s dhw2vec.pl dhw2xoj''
    * ''ln -s dhw2vec.pl dhw2vec''

====== Usage ======
<code>
usage: <yourbin-path>/dhw2vec.pl [params] [dwh file(s)]

Where params can be:
-c|--colorlayers     color layers
-d|--debug           run in debug mode
-h|--help            display this usage message
-q|--quiet           run in quite mode
-v|--verbose         run in verbose mode
--pdf                create pdf files (needs ps2pdf)
--ps                 create ps files
--dia                create dia files
--xoj                create xournal files (xournal.sf.net)
</code>

====== Example ======