Does anybody know where I can find a graphics converter?? Preferably something that converts from *.wmf to *.gif or *.jpg? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Does anybody know where I can find a graphics converter?? Preferably something that converts from *.wmf to *.gif or *.jpg? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Correct me if i am wrong, but I do not think you can convert a Metafile (*.wmf) to a JPG becase they are drawn with mathematical calculations so the picture will always appear the same regardless of it's size.
For example, when you stretch a Bitmap, JPEG, GIF or Icon, the picture will eventually be blurred out. When you stretch a Metafile, instead of the Pixels growing larger, the Circles' radius gets larger and the lines get thicker and longer. Metafile's will add pixels to have a constant fixture relative to the size.
For future reference, images drawn from mathmatical formulas and calculations are called vector images; images which are a matrix of pixels are called raster images.
It's probably not that hard to convert a vector image into a raster image. Just draw a grid over the image (at whatever zoom level.) Every square that is more than 50% covered is converted into a pixel of the appropriate color.
For higher accuracy, one might even try to impliment anti-aliasing.
After all, everything on the display is a raster image. Windows converts wmf to raster every time it displays one. As far as converters, I don't know of any free ones but you might check out Jasc Image Robot (http://www.jasc.com). It's supposed to be good for batch conversions and resizes and stuff, but I've never used it. (It also has a command prompt interface for use with other programs.)
If you're just looking to convert a couple of files at design time, load them into an editor, zoom out to see the whole pic, press <alt>+<prtsc> (this captures the screen), go into mspaint (or whatever paint program), and paste as new.