Can Metafile Companion edit all objects in any Windows metafile?
No. For the record, it is much easier to be a metafile viewer than a metafile editor. Windows metafiles and enhanced metafiles can contain a rich set of commands. We don’t know of any program that lets you faithfully edit everything in a metafile. Here’s some more detail… Metafile Companion was designed primarily to edit clip art files, so it supports the subset of metafile commands that is used by the majority of clipart vendors. The supported drawing objects include Line, Polyline, Polypolyline, Polygon, Polypolygon, Rectangle, Ellipse and Text. Objects that are not supported (e.g. Arc, Chord and Wedge) are filtered out. Metafile Companion ignores bitmaps and all bitmap-oriented operations. We recommend you use Paintbrush or another paint program to edit bitmaps. To have Metafile Companion warn you whenever it encounters a command it doesn’t process, go to Tools, Options, General and check the “Display Ignored Metafile Record Warnings” option. While this will occasionally alert you
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