I guess that leaves PNG! However, I will maintain that WMF may be adequate
for what you're doing. I've been using that format for a long time with few
issues. I suppose it may depend on how well the source application handles
the conversion AND how well it works with the DTP application. I have seen
disastrous results! That was when MS made an update to Visio. Fortunately,
they made a patch and life was back to normal. Other than that little blip,
I've seen WMF work flawlessy for hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands, of
graphics.


Thomas Johnson
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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [TCP] graphics - balancing clarity and size

Thoughts on vectors.

SVG seems okay, it's an XML format that can embed fonts. However, SVG is
not common, Adobe just dropped its SVG viewer, so the ability to share
files of this format is a concern. (FM will finally import these.)

WMF and EMF are problematic. For example, WMF converts some curves to a
series of short vectors, and neither embeds fonts, they only refer to
the font I believe by its Windows name.

Cheers,

Sean 


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