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From: gjh87@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gary Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MetaFile Woes...
Message-ID: <2878@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 90 13:48:45 GMT
References: <118500017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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In <118500017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>a) Can someone point out how to display a metafile (.wmf) that was generated
>   using CorelDraw 1.10d? Here's how far I got - I wrote a program that does

The problem with metafiles from CorelDraw is the format used.  there
is an additional 22(?) byte header containing aspect information
for use by programs such as pagemaker. 
This is called thew placeable metafile format. If you get on to the
microsoft helpline people you should be able to get the full
description.  There is no way of making these metafiles work as they
are, cos the windows metafile routines don't know about it (clever
eh!), so you will need to write a noddy program to strip 22 bytes
from the front of the file.

Hope this helps, I haven't time for more detail.

>Milan
>.
Gary Hill, gjh87@uk.ac.soton.cm