Windows Metafile Formats (WMF and EMF)

The Windows Metafile (WMF and EMF) formats are vector formats that may or may not also contain a raster image.

EMF/WMF Vector files can be read and written as raster images in the Imaging Pro toolkits. They can be read and written as vector images in the Document and Medical Imaging toolkits.

File constants associated with this file format are:

When WMF and EMF files are rasterized, they are either 8 or 24 BPP.

The following table indicates which objects LEAD can load and which objects it can save:

Required DLLs and Libraries

• LFWMF.
• For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Note: When working with LEADTOOLS annotations (rather than image files), you can save the annotations as WMF or EMF files containing vector graphics that can be used in other applications.

Related Formats

• CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile
• CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange Format
• DGN - Intergraph Format
• DRW - Micrografx Designer DRaWing
• DWF - DWF Format
• DWG - DWG Format
• DXF - Drawing Interchange Format
• GBR - Gerber Format
• PCL - Printer Command Language Format
• PCT - Macintosh Pict Format
• PDF - Portable Document Format
• PS - PostScript Document Format
• RTF - Rich Text Format
• SHP - ESRI Shape Format
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics Format
• VEC - LEADTOOLS Vector Dump Format
• VPG - WordPerfect Vector Format
• WMZ - Compressed Windows Metafile Format
• NAP - North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS)
• MIF - MapInfo Interchange File Format
• E00 - ArcInfo Interchange File Format