The Windows Enhanced Metafile format isn't specific to Microsoft Office
documents, so it probably doesn't belong in POI.
Even if we advertise this as rudimentary support only, it would likely
generate bug reports for POI, detracting from the time we spend on reading
and writing Office documents.

On the same token, POI doesn't maintain code to work with BMP or SVG
content, since there are other libraries that can work with this.

My vote is for a different project to support EMF files. This has an added
benefit of making EMF support for other Java applications without adding
POI as a dependency.

On Jan 4, 2017 11:13 AM, "Allison, Timothy B." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andi,
>   I like what you've done with the patch for this issue.
>
> All,
>   Is it worthwhile adding a rudimentary EMF parser to POI?  It might help
> us explore what other "full docs" are stuffed inside EMF like the PDFs that
> you found.  I hacked out a version for Tika (locally), but I think this
> would be better in POI.  WDYT?
>
>      Cheers,
>
>              Tim
>
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> https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60519
>
> --- Comment #1 from Andreas Beeker <[email protected]> --- The test
> data for EMF with embedded PDF can be found under
> https://people.apache.org/~kiwiwings/Basic_Expense_Template_2011.xls
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