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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MetaFile, How to GetTextExtent ?
Message-ID: <106580061@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 89 16:28:45 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Why only a SUBSET of the GDI functions can be used in Windows'
> MetaFile, while all the QuickDraw commands can be used in the
> Mac's Picture?

Most of the functions disallowed on MSW metafiles are device-specific
inquiry.  I'm not familiar with Mac, so what do they do if a metafile
is generated for one particular device and played back on another with
different attributes?

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Corvallis Information Systems