EMF Metafile support in Infragistics.Documents

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EMF Metafile support in Infragistics.Documents

Gary posted over 16 years ago

We would like to create PDF reports using Infragistics.Documents. Our report output includes, grids, formatted text, charts and images. I have discovered how to create metafiles from the Infragistics UltraGrid and UltraFormatedTextEdtior using UIElement.Print, so combining all of these elements into a print document works well. The problem is Infragistics.Document has poor support for metafiles. From what I can tell (in the samples) it only supports WMF files. I have evaluated other component vendors, component-One, for example, supports EMF. I can use their documents engine to draw Infragistics grids and other controls given my desired X/Y coordinants and output to PDF. Additionally I can use a PrintDocument object and other PDF packages to convert directly. When will Infragistics.Documents have a support for enhanced metafiles?

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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 16 years ago

You should submit a feature request to Infragistics: Request a Feature or Component
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Gary posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman
Done.

It seems to me that if Infragistics.Documents could support EMF files and/or the full gambit of GDI/GDI+ commands this would make your component incredibly powerfull.

A couple of nice options would be:

.AddMetaFile() ---> If this could work with EMF metafiles

ICanvas.Graphics actually returned a Graphics object that you could use any GDI commands to paint with, or you could draw a control on.

Ability to render a PrintDocument to your Report object by simply passing the PrintDocument object to a method.

One question:

ICanvas.Graphics returns some sort of Graphics object... what percentage of GDI commands are supported in this object?
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