Re: Windows EMF

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Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Thursday 03 June 2004 12:00 pm, St=E9phane Barbaray wrote:
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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=
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>>running with your emulator
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>Correct.  I have MS Office 2000 running under CodeWeavers Wine.
>The problem is present for all of the Office components, not just Word.
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>I have just discovered, however, that if I ask PowerPoint to convert
>the imported figure to a "MicroSoft Office drawing object"  then the tex=
t
>produced by the new driver becomes readable.  I don't know what
>to conclude from this exactly.
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The conclusion may be that this conversion is a real independant=20
conversion routine and not just a playback using the the gdi32.dll

>>The new version doesn't use anymore EMR_EXTTEXTOUTW (unicode version)
>>but EMR_EXTTEXTOUTA (SBCS version), to be more compliant with libwmf
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>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.
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indeed I initially used the unicode version for the purpose of a easier=20
port to a unicode version of gnuplot, but on the other side it seems=20
that openoffice (maybe koffice) use libwmf and despite the fact that=20
this library has not been updated for few years now...
The other (more obscure) reason was that the new patch added some bytes=20
to EMF files, so using the ASCII version let me gain the lost bytes... ;-=
)

>>btw if you use wine, see
>>http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/05/0156.html and
>>others related bugs
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>Interesting.  Well, maybe some future version of Wine will handle
>the revised emf format more happily.
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Yes, or maybe I may go back to that good old version, since MS is=20
preparing a hotfix (probably included in SP2) for that stupid and=20
destructive security patch... for adobe users not for gnuplot emf users=20
of course! LOL

Bye,
Stef.