On Wednesday 20 June 2007 10:03:58 David Fisher wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> How would you compare the WMF and EMF formats to Escher Drawing layer
> objects included in an XLS or PPT?
>
> This is a question about the format.

It would be yet one more renderer to write.  WMF and EMF are effectively 
serialisations of the actual system calls used to render the picture.  I get 
the impression that Escher is more of a proper vector graphics format.  I 
don't know if that makes it easier or harder to implement a renderer.

All these things appear in a PPT file though.  I received a PPT file recently 
which had a mix of Escher drawing plus a big EMF file centred in it.  It 
would unfortunately all need to be handled in order to render the whole 
thing, but I know people have already managed to do it. :-)

EMF+ is another hurdle since they don't even document that one yet.

Daniel

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