WMF Images not displaying correctly on Word 2004 for Mac

R

Roger

Graphs with rotated text as axes labels are viewed correctly on Word
for Windows as a WMF image, however when the same document is opened
with Word 2004 for Mac, the text has moved significantly. It appears to
be a problem with the Windows Metafile converter, and only affects
rotated text. Also, as mentioned on a previous post, lines are drawn
across some WMF images on Word 2004 for the Mac, whereas on Word for
Windows no lines appear.
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Hi Roger:

Yeah, it's a "limitation", and there's not much they can do about it.

A WMF image comprises Windows GDI (Graphics Display Interface) primitives.
Things such as lines, shapes, line weights are all GDI elements. And EMF
uses GDI+ (sometimes referred to as GDI 2) primitives.

On the Mac, Office applications convert these images to PICT, using Mac
QuickDraw primitives. Unfortunately, the two systems of graphics primitives
do not exactly correspond, and there's not much they can do about it.

I would love to say "use EPS, it's guaranteed to work the same on both
platforms" except that there are still lots of issues with EPS on either
platform that means that half the time you will get left with an image you
can't print at ALL.

Sorry!

Graphs with rotated text as axes labels are viewed correctly on Word
for Windows as a WMF image, however when the same document is opened
with Word 2004 for Mac, the text has moved significantly. It appears to
be a problem with the Windows Metafile converter, and only affects
rotated text. Also, as mentioned on a previous post, lines are drawn
across some WMF images on Word 2004 for the Mac, whereas on Word for
Windows no lines appear.

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410
 

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