The Compressed Windows Metafile format is a vector file format that represents primarily Group 3 fax documents. It contains information concerning the page structure and the compressed line data of the fax document. This format was developed by Microsoft and is supported by Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Word 2000.
The default extension used by this format is: WMZ.
The following table indicates which objects LEAD can load and which objects it can save:
Object | Load | Save |
---|---|---|
Arc | Supported | Supported |
Background color and mode | Supported | Supported |
Chord | Supported | Supported |
Circle | Supported | Supported |
Color | Supported | Supported |
Ellipse | Supported | Supported |
HPolyBezier | Supported | Supported |
Lines | Supported | Supported |
Pie | Supported | Supported |
PolyBezier | Supported | Supported |
PolyDraw | Supported | Supported |
Polygons | Supported | Supported |
Polyline | Supported | Supported |
Raster | Supported | Supported |
Rectangle | Supported | Supported |
Round Rectangle | Restricted Support | Restricted Support |
Spline | Supported | Supported |
Text | Supported | Supported |
Text(Color and Font Type) | Supported | Supported |
Vertex | Supported | Supported |
File constants associated with this file format are:
Constant | Read Support | Write Support | Description |
---|---|---|---|
FILE_WMZ | Yes | Yes | [307] Compressed Windows Metafile Format |
When WMZ files are rasterized, they are 24 BPP.
Required DLL: LFWMZ. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.
NOTE: This format does not support LEAD's redirected IO feature.
Related Formats: EMF - Windows Metafile Formats, Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM), Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX), DGN (DGN), DRaWing (DRW), Drawing Interchange Format (DXF), DWF Format (DWF), DWG Format (DWG), ESRI Shape (SHP), Gerber Format (GBR), Macintosh Pict (PCT), PLT (PLT), Printer Command Language (PCL), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Windows Metafile Format (WMF), WordPerfect Graphics Format (WPG and VWPG), NAP - North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS), MIF - MapInfo Interchange File Format, E00 - ArcInfo Interchange File Format