Re: emf woes

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 23 April 2004 03:31 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> I does seem to have a problem with gnuplot's EMF files, though.  In
> particular, its 'printemf' tool complains
>
> GetEnhMetaFileW warning: read unknown record type 84 of size 80
> GetEnhMetaFileW warning: read unknown record type 84 of size 84
> [... several more ...]

Strange.  My (admittedly outdated) spec for EMF says record type 84
is	EMR_EXTTEXTOUTW

> Seems like that is about our EMF_put_text() calling
>
>     EMF_write_emr(84, 76 + len * 2);    /* exttextoutw, yes it's the 16bi=
ts char version! */

which is consistent with that comment.

I did worry a little that the spec refers to all text handling in terms
of Unicode strings.  Gnuplot is not unicode-ready.


> Note that this little snippet from libEMF also contains a valuable hint
> at the actual EMF definition.  Google finds:
>
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-234.htm

=46rom a quick look at the pdf docs there, they seem to be specs for
Windows 3.1 APIs. That's even older than the spec I already have.

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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