Re: Windows EMF

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

On Thursday 03 June 2004 08:42 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, BBands wrote:
> > A Windows security patch to fix an EMF buffer overflow
> > vulnerability, KB 835732, prevents many EMFs from displaying.
>
> We're aware of that.  A patch for gnuplot is on our patch tracker, but
> according to Ethan, it still doesn't work.

To be precise, it doesn't work for me using Word2000 running
under linux.  Since this is far from the most common thing to do,
I don't know whether it really matters.  But the old (un-patched)
driver worked fine for me.

I have not heard back from anyone whether Word2000 running
under Windows does or does not have the same problem.

In the hope that someone reading this has a "real" W2K system
to test this on, I attach the output from gnuplot's "test" command
using both the old and the new (patched) emf driver.  On my
system the new version places all the text characters on top
of each other.  Do you see the same thing?

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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