Re: Windows EMF

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Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:15 am, BBands wrote:
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>>On a fully patched win 2k system--no emf hotfix--I can
>>see the new, but not the old. The pattern-fill bars
>>are empty, the line-width displays are all the same
>>width and the character-width display fills half the
>>box.
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>Feh.  
>So in W2K you can see the new but  not the old,
>and I can see the old and not the new.  Just another
>example of how MicroSoft products don't even
>manage compatibility with themselves, let alone with
>other systems.
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And this is only a debut, there will be far more incompatibilties 
everywhere with XP SP 2, this will be the hell for web designers... and  
also most apps will have to be redesigned or patched...
At least we already know that gnuplot have to be patched and that the 
case for adobe illustrator, furthermore all saved EMF files created with 
actual and former adobe illustrator products won't display anymore on 
future windows products

>Well frankly, I don't really care that much whether
>Windows works or not.  So if other people are happy
>with the patch, I'll just chalk it up as another format
>that I can't test here for myself.
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>Just out of curiousity, do newer versions of
>MicroSoft Word/PowerPoint/whatever handle SVG input?
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There may be an SVG filter for MSOffice somewhere but vector filtered 
files are converted to MSDRAW object internally then kept as is when 
saved on disk...
The only native vector format recognized are WMF and EMF even in the 
last RTF specification
If SVG is more widely supported (people prefer using flash) on the web, 
then they may consider to include it natively in IE then a bit later in 
MSOffice...

Stef.