POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Modern Linux desktops suck : Re: MS Windows Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:21:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: MS Windows  
From: andrel
Date: 18 Nov 2009 17:19:41
Message: <4B0472FC.9060309@hotmail.com>
On 18-11-2009 18:34, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> What can I say? Word sucks. :-)
> 
> Actually, metafile is standard on Windows and is pretty much the same 
> thing as "PICT" format on Macs. It's a list of the graphics 
> operations/calls it takes to produce something, so it's basically 
> postscript-like - a list of resolution-independent instructions.  
> Without being a full-blown language.
> 
> You can get a metafile out of any program by printing. That's what the 
> "save to file" on the print dialog means.
> 
Are you talking about the format where it first rounds the vertices to 
the nearest pixel on screen before output or are you talking about 
another vector format that I totally missed?


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