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I guess my real question is...is there a screen
capture utility that will capture in WMF or EMF
(aparently "extended" form of WMF) formats?
...as I write this its dawning on me that perhaps
if its hard for a utility to convert a bitmap to
WMF that it might be just as hard to screen capture
in WMF...
--- Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com wrote:
>
> Oy, Pete, you don't want much, do you?
>
> GIF, JPeG and BMP are *not* vector graphic files.
> There is no vector
> information in them. They are strictly bit-mapped
> (raster) images. So, what
> you're looking for is an application that can look
> at a pattern of bits,
> and decide what bits are part of which vector, then
> convert those bits into
> vectors.
>
> These applications exist, but it ain't as simple as
> "save as WMF" me boy.
> These applications are the image equivalent of OCR
> (Optical Character
> Recognition) software, and they are about as prone
> to error. ...[clip]
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