Windows Metafile (WMF) is a common graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems. It is a vector graphics format which also allows the inclusion of raster graphics. Essentially, a WMF file stores a list of commands that have to be issued to the Windows graphics layer in order to restore the image. See also Category:Graphics file formats Here is a summary of the most common graphics file formats: Some file formats, e. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ... Vector graphics or geometric modeling describes the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images in computer graphics. ... Suppose the smiley face in the top left corner is an RGB bitmap image. ... Image of the Wikimedia Commons logo. ...
WMF is a 16-bit format; a newer 32-bit version with additional commands is called Enhanced Metafile (EMF).
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ... For information about the PostScript page description language, see PostScript. ...
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Windows GDI (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/metafile_0hmb.asp)
Unfortunately few Windows applications that support metafiles, also support metafiles that contain OpenGL (you also have to consider that this support is only in NT 4.0 or later, and isn’t even planned for Windows 98).
Since enhancedmetafiles are supported natively by the clipboard, this would be an ideal way to cut and paste OpenGL images from one application to another.
Microsoft Office ships with hundreds of windows metafiles (.wmf extension) for use as clipart, but these are not the same as enhancedmetafiles.
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