SWF Scout library provides an extended support for Windows Metafiles (WMF) and Enhanced Windows Metafiles (EMF). Metafiles can be loaded and converted into a sprite for further use in generated flash movie. And what is more SWF Scout provides .HDC property that can be used as device context (DC) handle parameter in WinGDI/GDI+ functions.

For rendering complex EMF (for example, EMF from virtual printers) or complex drawings with complex gradients etc there are properties HDC_HighQuality and HDC_HighQuality_UseBuffer and HDC_AutoEmbeddedFonts (enable it to automatically embed fonts from used in EMF). Use of these properties slow downs EMF2SWF conversion process but you can get almost 99% equal result. This properties require additional "EMF2SWF HighQuality License"

To place all vector objects drawn on HDC using .HDC property as sprite into flash (SWF) movie .PlaceFromHDC() method should be used. This method creates and places the new sprite from objects that were drawn on HDC.

In this sample you learn how to convert EMF metafile into SWF flash movie using SWF Scout library.

To load the metafile we will use .PlayMetaFileToHDC() method that takes the filename of EMF file and plays it to DC of SWF Scout flash library. Then we will place the metafile to the flash movie as sprite using .PlaceFromHDC() method