aspeyp
July 27th, 2005, 11:06 AM
This strange problem perhaps doesn't belong here; however I have found nothing on the Microsoft newsgroups nor on a support search (nor Google search). Maybe one of you wise folk can explain the following mystery.
Within my Windows program, I put a metafile (WMF or Enhanced, doesn't matter) on the clipboard. Pasting the image into Word works, except...
When I do it on my Windows XP platform with Word XP 2002, the image looks OK at original (100% size), but if I enlarge it or zoom in on the document, it fragments and becomes unrecognisable. When a colleague of mine does it in his Word 2000, the image sizes perfectly. Moreover, if he sends me his document and I open it on my machine it works there too. And I can copy it from that document and paste it in a new Word 2002 document and that looks good.
Somehow, on my colleague's platform, the metafile image is transferred properly via the clipboard and scales perfectly. On my own platform, however, I get the impression that, although the image is transferred, it is in some other form and is not recognised as the metafile it is supposed to be.
Does anyone have a clue as to what is happening here?
Thanks
Peter
Within my Windows program, I put a metafile (WMF or Enhanced, doesn't matter) on the clipboard. Pasting the image into Word works, except...
When I do it on my Windows XP platform with Word XP 2002, the image looks OK at original (100% size), but if I enlarge it or zoom in on the document, it fragments and becomes unrecognisable. When a colleague of mine does it in his Word 2000, the image sizes perfectly. Moreover, if he sends me his document and I open it on my machine it works there too. And I can copy it from that document and paste it in a new Word 2002 document and that looks good.
Somehow, on my colleague's platform, the metafile image is transferred properly via the clipboard and scales perfectly. On my own platform, however, I get the impression that, although the image is transferred, it is in some other form and is not recognised as the metafile it is supposed to be.
Does anyone have a clue as to what is happening here?
Thanks
Peter