[Rd] wmf on Unix?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ben Bolker wrote:

>
>   libEMF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libemf/) looks like it may be
> the solution to generating WMF/EMF files on Unix.  It's a general-purpose
> (LGPL) library that implements the EMF API ...
>
>   (I was originally going to write to the list to ask why small circles
> appear to be filled (in src/gnuwin32/graphapp/gdraw.c) by generating a
> series of rectangles rather than using some kind of "filled circle"
> primitive; someone I passed an R-generated EMF file to was worried that
> the profusion of little rectangle objects might give the printer hiccups
> ... I assume there is some good reason for this, probably now lost in the
> mists of time.)

Such as the filled circle code in the Windows GDI does not work
adequately? The name `fastfillrectangle' might give you a clue.

Drawing filled circles through the Windows GDI is notoriously slow
and buggy.

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