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I would like to read the content of an EMF spool file into a .NET application and extract the text content. Can anyone help suggest an approach for doing this? Any libraries or objects available off-the-shelf? Or any suggestions on a EMF file parsing example?

impactds
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    @IanT8: The .emf tag explains what it is. So does your favorite search engine. – Carey Gregory Mar 06 '13 at 01:52
  • I would be surprised if there are off-the-shelf .NET components available for decoding spool files, and a quick search turns up nothing. Decoding spool files is kind of a decidedly C++ thing to do. – Carey Gregory Mar 06 '13 at 01:54

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If you are OK with rendering it and then using the result, there's Imageresizing.net that can render EMFs for you and give you a PNG for example based on it. That way you could for example render it in a browser to create some kind of viewer thing - which would be slow as all hell but still.

Then there's www.MetaDraw.com as well but I haven't actually used it - might be better or worse.

Joel Peltonen
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