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Originally posted by docree
I get thick lines when I import emf...
I guess, Johnie: "KoolMoves does not import text,
transparancies, fills, line widths, line paterns, and
Bitmaped info." explains that..
Here this is the explanation:
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Why does my metafile "change" in some programs when I import it?
Often, drawing programs import a metafile by reading it and converting each metafile object to the closest corresponding drawing object. No drawing program that I am aware of supports all the possible objects contained in a Windows metafile. And some don't always draw objects the same way Windows does.
Most often drawing programs don't handle things like PolyPolygons (polygons with holes and islands), rotated text, bitmap fill patterns and transparent hatch patterns. This can cause certain "idiosyncracies" to appear when editing some metafiles.
If you want to put your favorite drawing program to the test, use it to open TEST.WMF, and make a small change to one of the objects (to make sure the metafile has really been converted to the drawing program's native format). Then use the Windows Clipboard Viewer to open TEST.CLP and see what the chart should really look like! Are they the same?
Why do some programs display a metafile properly when it is imported, but then change it when I edit it?
This is related to the previous question. Basically, any Windows program can accurately display a Windows metafile with a few lines of code. They just hand the metafile to Windows and say "display it". So some drawing programs take the following approach with metafiles. Initially, when the metafile is added they display it "as is". But as soon as the user tries to edit (or ungroup) the metafile, then they convert it to their own internal format and that's where the idiosyncracies occur.
It would seem from the test WMF that KoolMoves is not importing Line widths and all that other stuff I posted. You can look at the test WMF yourself- It is posted on that site exactly for comparision of WMF export and import comparision.