Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) WMF (Windows Metafile) file import plugin.Download WMF Paint.NET PluginThis plugin interprets the WMF record structure using 100% .NET code and uses WPF as the rendering engine. The main code behind this is the WMF2WPF library and with this plugin Paint.NET now has the ability to open metafiles.Note this does not turn Paint.NET into a vector editor. WMF files will open just as they do in MS Paint, as a raster image, but will typically look nicer using this plugin due to anti-aliasing. Images must be saved as a different file format like png for example. I have made it so that a metafile will open with two layers, a white background and a second layer with the main image. Hide the background layer to use the image with transparency (if the image has it).Cheers Edited September 13, 2014 by Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 Rick has released Paint.NET 3.5.3 which includes increased support for open only file plugins such as this one. Be sure to check for updates so that you get the latest version. Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 Version 1.0.2 is up now. - Fix to handle null terminated strings for font names. Mainly appeared in files saved from Visio. - Support for indexed color bitmaps without an included color palette Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Version 1.0.3 has been released. It contains one bug fix for proper handling of vertical text. Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleabo Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Bruce, this plugin works with all of the WMF files I have tried. Very nice. The images always comes out the same size, sometimes smaller than I would like. Since these are vector commands, could they be made to generate the image to fit in the size of the currently open canvas? PatrickL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Pleabo, The image size comes from the metafile itself. They typically contain recommended dimensions to place the vector image into. I have considered displaying an import settings window on file open where you could set the scaling and background behaviour but thought that it may become annoying being shown every time. Maybe when the Paint.NET v4 settings dialog comes along I can do something there. File type plugins get handed the file that was opened and return a Paint.NET document based off that file. I don't think I can access any other application state like the currently open canvas. Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Minor 1.0.4 release to fix the background fill on a polygon in a rare situation Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 Version 1.1.1 has been released - Added support for vertical and horizontal text alignment options. - Added support for the long awaited image and text clipping. - Fix for default font color. Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontcannon Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 You are great Quote Night Vision Text Effect Tutorial Gallery reddit.com/r/futurebeats | My Mixcloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Works perfectly! Even with wmf files created by a piece bespoke software that my friend wrote... it's not the best wmf implementation and other programs sometimes have trouble with these files... not your plugin! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Version 1.3 has been released - Fixed issue reading non-unicode text items Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 Version 1.3.1 has been released- Added code page support for non-latin text - Added clipping support for Polygon, Polyline, and PolyPolygon shapes. Quote GPU Blur Plugin | WMF File Plugin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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