Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvlx!bturner 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 References:Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 11 > 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