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Graphics Programming with GDI+
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Graphics Programming with GDI+

by Mahesh Chand
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
14h 21m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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8.2. Working with Metafiles

Metafiles contain information about how an image was created—including lists of graphics operations—rather than storing the image in pixel format. Graphics operations in a metafile are stored as records, which can be controlled (recorded and played back) individually.

The Metafile class provides functionality to work with different metafile formats including Windows Metafile Format (WMF), Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF), and an extension to Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF+). The Metafile class provides about 40 overloaded forms of its constructor.

Loading and viewing a metafile is similar to viewing a bitmap. An application can load a metafile from a stream, string, or IntPtr instance with different formats and locations. ...

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