I Never Metafile I Didn't Like

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 16:05 UTC, submitted by esther schindler

"Metafiles are one of two fundamental ways of representing an image. While they are not suitable for all images, photographs in particular, they have many advantages over bitmaps for charts and drawings. Peter Aitken demonstrates how to use them in .NET."

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Metafiles are malware factories...

by tomcat (2.16) on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 16:54 UTC

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Windows GDI has had numerous vulnerabilities due to poor parsing. A better approach would be to use XAML and Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation

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RE: Metafiles are malware factories...

by ramunas (1.28) on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:46 UTC in reply to "Metafiles are malware factories..."

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So as XAML, better use *standard* format for graphics SVG.

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Funny...

by snozzberry (3.04) on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 17:12 UTC

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...how WMF came out after PICT, eh?

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RE: Funny...

by tomcat (2.16) on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 17:13 UTC in reply to "Funny..."

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"Snozzberry? Who ever heard of a Snozzberry?..." ;-p

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Heh...

by Devon (2.56) on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 21:07 UTC

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Super bonus points for the title!

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Advantages over bitmaps?

by mallard (3.48) on Sat 4th Nov 2006 12:26 UTC

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WMF files can contain bitmaps. They are a meta-file format, meaning that they can contain any type of data understood by the windows GDI/GDI+.
While they most often contain vector data, they can just as easily contain bitmap data.

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