Re: Windows EMF

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

On Thursday 03 June 2004 12:00 pm, St=E9phane Barbaray wrote:
>
> 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

Correct.  I have MS Office 2000 running under CodeWeavers Wine.
The problem is present for all of the Office components, not just Word.

I have just discovered, however, that if I ask PowerPoint to convert
the imported figure to a "MicroSoft Office drawing object"  then the text
produced by the new driver becomes readable.  I don't know what
to conclude from this exactly.

> The new version doesn't use anymore EMR_EXTTEXTOUTW (unicode version)
> but EMR_EXTTEXTOUTA (SBCS version), to be more compliant with libwmf

I realize that.  I'm not convinced that is a good thing, however.
I would like to extend gnuplot to full unicode support eventually,
so this seems like a step backwards.

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

Interesting.  Well, maybe some future version of Wine will handle
the revised emf format more happily.

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