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3. I want to use WMF2EPS under Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Does it work ?

4. I work in a Unix-only environment. Is your utility WMF2EPS available for this?

5. EPS2WMF: I am looking for a tool which can convert postscript to wmf ?

6. WMF2EPS fails getting Excel 97 charts via windows clipboard: OpenGraphicsError ?

7. I want to use WMF2EPS under Windows 3.1. Does it work (I have Win32s installed) ?

8. After conversion some of my EPS files look ugly in GhostView, Fonts appear misplaced ...

Q 1 GhostView can't read the EPS files generated by WMF2EPS. What's wrong ?

A 1 (GhostView: Unrecoverable error, ... Begin offending input, ...) There are 2 common reasons for that:

This happens usually, if the drivers default output is not EPS. Please check, if the WMF2EPS.PPD virtual PS driver is installed as described in the help file (install section). Please check, if the driver is properly configured for EPS output by default

Win9x with any PS driver: Start->Settings->Printers->WMF2EPS Color PS L2->PostScript-output must have EPS setting (NOT: Optimize for Speed, which is default) !

NT4.0 + Adobe 5.x PS driver: Start->Settings->Printers->WMF2EPS Color PS L2->Document Defaults->PostScript-output must have EPS setting (NOT: Optimize for Speed, which is default) !

Windows 2000 PS driver: Start->Settings->Printers->WMF2EPS Color PS L2->Printing Preferences->Advanced->Document Options->PostScript Options->PostScript-output must have EPS setting (NOT: Optimize for Speed, which is default) !

If you are using Adobe's new PS printer driver 4.3 from their ftp site and try to view any PostScript file with GhostScript 5.5, the program will complain for any PostScript file produced by the 4.3 driver. My recommendation is to use the Adobe printer driver version 4.26 or to switch to GhostScript 6.x.

Q 2 I want to use the WMF2EPS conversion within my own application. Is the WMF2EPS source code available ?.

A 2 The WMF2EPS program is shareware and its source code is not available. However I have a non-GUI version of WMF2EPS (Windows only) I offer for embedding the WMF2EPS conversion mechanism into any Windows application. Please contact me by e-mail for further details.

Q 3 I want to use WMF2EPS under Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Does it work ?

A 3 WMF2EPS runs under Windows 2000 since version 1.2. Older versions of WMF2EPS do not run under Windows 2000. WMF2EPS runs under Windows XP as well, since Windows XP has a common API with Windows 2000.

Q 4 I work in a Unix-only environment. Is your utility WMF2EPS available for this? I am looking for a simple command-line interface.

A 4 Since WMF2EPS is not a 'real' converter program, i.e. PostScript code is been generated by calling Windows printer drivers, it can't be ported to UNIX very easily. Sorry, but doing the real job of translating each WMF-command to PS would have been too much effort for me that time I wrote the WMF2EPS utility.

GhostScript -since version 4.03- can calculate tight BoundingBoxes of some raw PS-image: the main job of WMF2EPS. Perhaps it might be a solution for you to print your WMF/EMF-images into raw PS file under Windows (or where else do you get WMF/EMF-format from ?) and convert them to EPS under GS running UNIX.

Q 5 EPS2WMF: I am looking for a tool which can convert PostScript to WMF ?

A 5 There are 4 programs I know:
1) Adobe Illustrator (see product information at www.adobe.com)

2) Mayura Draw (www.mayura.com)

3) pstoedit, which is free. It can be obtained from
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/

4) ps2vector for Windows and UNIX platforms (see www.square1.nl)

Q 6 WMF2EPS fails getting Excel 97 charts via windows clipboard: OpenGraphicsError.

A 6 Excel97 seems to suppress the image size information in the header of the metafile copied to the clipboard. Since Excel puts the same image in EMF format to the clipboard, WMF2EPS should import EMF format rather than WMF. If you have that problem, paste the image as EMF into WMF2EPS (in the Paste Select Dialog).

Q 7 I want to use WMF2EPS under Windows 3.1. Does it work (I have Win32s installed) ?

A 7 No, WMF2EPS relies on the full WIN32 API, which is available under Windows 95/98 or Windows NT. Versions 1.3x support Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT 4.0 (Intel) and Windows 2000.