WMF Support

Rolf Kalbermatter r.kalbermatter at hccnet.nl
Thu Jan 22 00:03:12 CST 2009


Erich Hoover wrote:

>I ran into an issue with WMF files in helping someone get an application to
>work (Athena Visual Studio) and I worked around it by pre-rendering the
>application's vector WMF files.  I don't currently have the time to resolve
>the issue, but for when I do I'm curious whether there is a reason that
>OleLoadPicture* has been implemented manually.  It seems that the LGPL
>"libwmf" has excellent support for both bitmap and vector WMF files (it at
>least worked for converting the files I had trouble with!), so it seems to
>me like it would make sense to use this library rather than spinning a
>separate implementation.  Any comments are appreciated.

Do you have somewhere the specific WMF file in question? The license is a
"bit" to expensive to buy it just to test this ;-)

Rolf Kalbermatter




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