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Saving An Image From Windows Clipboard As WMF |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: A user cut a graphic image to the Clipboard and pasted it into WordPerfect for Windows. The user saved the graphic image in both the WMF and WPG formats (File|Preferences|Graphics import). What will actually happen to the graphic image if that document file is taken into WP 5.1 or WP 5.0 for DOS? What will happen if one of the other options is chosen under the same menu (e.g., Save As WMF or Save As WPG Only)? For one customer, text on the y-axis of a graphic comes in unrotated when pasted from the Windows Clipboard. Solutions: When WPWin imports the file, it does the basic converting just like GRAPHCNV does when it stores the document file. Under Preferences, if Save Image as Both is selected, when you come into the DOS versions of WP, the WPG formatting for the graphic is used, and the document should have no problems. The same thing would happen if the option is chosen for Save As WPG format. Now if the user has selected Save As WMF format, then the graphics box will be blank when retrieved into the DOS versions because the WMF format is not supported. Also, if that .WPG file is taken into DrawPerfect and saved, any WMF formatting is stripped out and removed. The basic advantage of saving the file in the WMF format is that the quality is better (specifically, the fonts, any rotated text, etc.). The second customer had selected WPG Format Only in File|Preferences|Graphics Import. Once the customer changed that to be both WMF and WPG the problem no longer occurred. This is because of the difference between the WMF and WPG graphics formats and how they handle fonts and text rotation. The WMF format will support the rotated text in a graphic from the Windows Clipboard; the WPG format will not. Additionally, if this file is taken into WP 5.1 DOS, the text will become unrotated because WP 5.1 DOS will use the WPG format and strips out any WMF formatting. |
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