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WMF File Conversion

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:15 pm
by Finchwizard
G'day,

Grabbed a copy of XnView, brilliant program I'd just like to say first. Extremely good, I love it.

Ok, here's the thing, I've managed to extract all the Clipart from Microsoft Office, into the proper categories.

Seeing as WMF is Vector based, it should be able to get as big as it wants.

What I am trying to do is make an Online Clipart Server, but just for Intranet use.

And the album generators that I have found so far. Will not work with WMF Files, and if they do the album generator is not very good.

So, I was going to convert them all into GIFs and it'll make it quite easy, but here's where the trouble comes in, I can not get these WMFs to resize to somewhere about 800x800 size without getting LOTS of jagged lines and the quality just going down the drain...

Is there some trick that I can get these to resize to whatever size I want, save them as GIF with them still looking good.

Even if you view properties on the WMF File, it says it's 1800x1700 res....yet when opened in XnView it says that the file is only 320x280 or something really small..

Can anyone help?

Regards,
Finchwizard

BTW - I also searched through these forums, didn't see anything like this with a way to do it.

Re: WMF File Conversion

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:58 am
by xnview
Finchwizard wrote:Even if you view properties on the WMF File, it says it's 1800x1700 res....yet when opened in XnView it says that the file is only 320x280 or something really small..
Could you send me a sample, please?
Regards. Pierre.

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:54 am
by Finchwizard
http://www.in-australia.com/images/j0150108.wmf

Here is the link to the WMF, it's just on my boss' site atm.....


So grab it quickly.....

If you go into the properties of it, and then summary on XP, you will see the res.

Let us know........email is <b>REMOVED</b>

Minus the nospam of course :)

I'll try and check back here if I can tomorrow, just really busy.

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:01 pm
by xnview
Finchwizard wrote:http://www.in-australia.com/images/j0150108.wmf
Here is the link to the WMF, it's just on my boss' site atm.....
So grab it quickly.....
Ok, it's good.
But it's strange, this wmf is really little....
Pierre.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 1:05 am
by Finchwizard
Yeah, in most apps its small.

But it's a vector image, which can be scaled to any size without loosing info.

Yet when in other apps, you zoom in and it just pixelates something fierce.

If you can get it working in XnView properly that would be great.
Otherwise do you know of another app that can do batch converts and handle WMFS fine?

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:11 am
by xnview
Finchwizard wrote:Yeah, in most apps its small.

But it's a vector image, which can be scaled to any size without loosing info.

Yet when in other apps, you zoom in and it just pixelates something fierce.

If you can get it working in XnView properly that would be great.
Otherwise do you know of another app that can do batch converts and handle WMFS fine?
Perhaps i must add WMF Width/height for read options????
Pierre.

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:32 am
by Finchwizard
Not sure.......

It would be a handy option.......is there a way to easily update it and replace a file or stick a filter on my end to get it working?

It's a pretty important project I'm doing.

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:10 am
by xnview
Finchwizard wrote:It would be a handy option.......is there a way to easily update it and replace a file or stick a filter on my end to get it working?
It's a pretty important project I'm doing.
Ok, i can make the change and send the fixed version. Could you send me an email?
Pierre.

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:00 am
by Finchwizard
That would be great........

jamesf@


Domain: calcc.qld.edu.au

There you go........thanks heaps man...