Re: Windows EMF

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Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Thursday 03 June 2004 08:42 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
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>>On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, BBands wrote:
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>>>A Windows security patch to fix an EMF buffer overflow
>>>vulnerability, KB 835732, prevents many EMFs from displaying.
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>>We're aware of that.  A patch for gnuplot is on our patch tracker, but
>>according to Ethan, it still doesn't work.
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>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.
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>I have not heard back from anyone whether Word2000 running
>under Windows does or does not have the same problem.
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>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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Is it Wine? Or does your version use a "special" (I mean non MS 
official) gdi32.dll? I think that the problem is more general than just 
Word and should happen with every applications able to display EMF _and_ 
running with your emulator
The new version doesn't use anymore EMR_EXTTEXTOUTW (unicode version) 
but EMR_EXTTEXTOUTA (SBCS version), to be more compliant with libwmf

btw if you use wine, see 
http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/05/0156.html and 
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