http://www.osnews.com/story/16382/_I_Never_Metafile_I_Didn_t_Like Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?178400 http://www.osnews.com/thread?178400 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 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?178419 http://www.osnews.com/thread?178419 ...how WMF came out after PICT, eh? Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (snozzberry) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?178423 http://www.osnews.com/thread?178423 "Snozzberry? Who ever heard of a Snozzberry?..." ;-p Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?178562 http://www.osnews.com/thread?178562 Super bonus points for the title! Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Devon) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?178748 http://www.osnews.com/thread?178748 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. Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mallard) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?178838 http://www.osnews.com/thread?178838 So as XAML, better use *standard* format for graphics SVG. Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ramunas) Comments