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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: How to convert to Standard WMF?
From:       Clarence Dang <dang () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-01-18 21:30:09
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Cool, could someone please send me a file (any format) that contains a 
Placeable WMF so that I can have a look (I have never seen a Placeable WMF in 
my life so that makes it rather difficult to test).

Thanks,
Clarence

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:32 pm, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> I have make a bug report (#53416) out of this problem, so that we do not
> forget to fix it.
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night!
>
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:25, Ariya Hidayat wrote:
> > >             // grab bounding box, find original size
> > >             unsigned left = data[6]+(data[7]<<8);
> > >             unsigned top = data[8]+(data[9]<<8);
> > >             unsigned right = data[10]+(data[11]<<8);
> > >             unsigned bottom = data[12]+(data[13]<<8);
> > >             origWidth = (long) (MM_TO_TWIP(right-left)/100);
> > >             origHeight = (long) (MM_TO_TWIP(bottom-top)/100);
> > >
> > > According to a O'Reilly, for Placeable Metafiles, "Left, Top, Right,
> > > and Bottom contain the coordinates of the upper-left and lower-right
> > > corners of the image on the output device. These are measured in
> > > twips", not millimetres.
> >
> > Really ? Some WMF files (which I have) show that left, top, right, and
> > bottom are specified in 1/100 mm.
> >
> > Actually, what I did was loading a WMF picture into MS Word document and
> > saving it as RTF file and there I found that original width and height of
> > the picture in RTF (specified by \picwgoal and \pighgoal) are the same as
> > (or close to ) the value of (right-left) and (bottom-top). This means
> > that those values are in 1/100 mm, as RTF specifies \picwgoal and
> > \pichgoal.
> >
> > When I inserted the same picture in KWord, saved the document to RTF and
> > then opened it in MS Word, it's just the same as if I had inserted the
> > picture directly in MS Word. I even did some arbritrary scaling to the
> > picture. That's why I was quite sure the code was right. Did I really
> > miss something?
> >
> >

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