[wxCode-users] Using wxPdfDocument to export a simple GDI generated documents to PDF

[Peter G. <pet...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm maintaining an MFC application, and I'd like to be able to export
some simple GDI generated documents to PDF. I see that wxPdfDocument
has the capability of reading a Windows metafile (which essentially
consists of a series of GDI function calls and their parameters):

http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/wxpdfdoc/classwx_pdf_document.html
: See "bool wxPdfDocument::Image"

It ought to be possible for me to serialise my document as a windows
Metafile using some MFC facility, perhaps to a temp directory, and
subsequently open that file using bool wxPdfDocument::Image.

Is this practical, sensible and possible? How tightly coupled is
wxPdfDocument to WxWidgets? The only other way that I can find of
doing this entails purchasing an extremely overpriced licence for a
commercial library.

Regards,
Peter Geoghegan