What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> David Thielen <david[ at ]windward.net> 18.10.2005 13:52:49 Hi; When there is an OLE object in a WordML file, along with the data that is understood only by the application that created the object, there is also a bitmap of the the drawn object - so it can display on systems that do not have the program that created the object installed. I created an example (using the equation editor) and the result is: <w:p> <w:pict> <v:shapetype ... <w:binData w:name="wordml://08000001.wmz">H4sIAAAA ... qAEAAA==</w:binData> <v:shape ... <o:OLEObject ... </w:pict> </w:p> The binData is probably uuencoded. But I decoded it and it doesn't seem to be any know format - I even tried it as a metafile. (My tests were to decode it and then try to load it in PaintShop Pro using each format. I also looked for the EMF signature bytes - they aren't in there.) So my question is, what is the format of this image? thanks - dave david[ at ]at-at-at[ at ]windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com Page 2 Stage -- http://www.Page2Stage.com Enemy Nations -- http://www.EnemyNations.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Barbie Science Fair -- http://www.BarbieScienceFair.info (yes I have lots of links)

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> 19.10.2005 13:59:03 Hi David, The .WMZ file type (not Windows Media Player Skin files <g> but Office Metafile) is usually a zipped version of a Metafile (vector graphic)that is in the Word document. You used to be able to open them with Winzip, but newer versions seem to compressed a bit differently. The viewer/converter at http://www.konvertor.net can still extract and show the content ======== <<"David Thielen" <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote in message news:5gv9l1559tnjm7c3ou9ms4ollimefcfs59[ at ]4ax.com... Hi; When there is an OLE object in a WordML file, along with the data that is understood only by the application that created the object, there is also a bitmap of the the drawn object - so it can display on systems that do not have the program that created the object installed. I created an example (using the equation editor) and the result is: <w:p> <w:pict> <v:shapetype ... <w:binData w:name="wordml://08000001.wmz">H4sIAAAA ... qAEAAA==</w:binData> <v:shape ... <o:OLEObject ... </w:pict> </w:p> The binData is probably uuencoded. But I decoded it and it doesn't seem to be any know format - I even tried it as a metafile. (My tests were to decode it and then try to load it in PaintShop Pro using each format. I also looked for the EMF signature bytes - they aren't in there.) So my question is, what is the format of this image? thanks - dave >> -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> David Thielen <david[ at ]windward.net> 22.10.2005 01:44:52 Getting closer... Any idea how to decompress it? thanks - dave On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:59:03 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hi David, > >The .WMZ file type (not Windows Media Player Skin files <g> but Office Metafile) >is usually a zipped version of a Metafile (vector graphic)that is in >the Word document. You used to be able to open them with >Winzip, but newer versions seem to compressed a bit differently. > >The viewer/converter at http://www.konvertor.net can still extract >and show the content >======== > <<"David Thielen" <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote in message news:5gv9l1559tnjm7c3ou9ms4ollimefcfs59[ at ]4ax.com... >Hi; > >When there is an OLE object in a WordML file, along with the data that >is understood only by the application that created the object, there >is also a bitmap of the the drawn object - so it can display on >systems that do not have the program that created the object >installed. > >I created an example (using the equation editor) and the result is: > ><w:p> > <w:pict> > <v:shapetype ... > <w:binData w:name="wordml://08000001.wmz">H4sIAAAA ... >qAEAAA==</w:binData> > <v:shape ... > <o:OLEObject ... > </w:pict> ></w:p> > >The binData is probably uuencoded. But I decoded it and it doesn't >seem to be any know format - I even tried it as a metafile. (My tests >were to decode it and then try to load it in PaintShop Pro using each >format. I also looked for the EMF signature bytes - they aren't in >there.) > >So my question is, what is the format of this image? > >thanks - dave >> david[ at ]at-at-at[ at ]windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com Page 2 Stage -- http://www.Page2Stage.com Enemy Nations -- http://www.EnemyNations.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Barbie Science Fair -- http://www.BarbieScienceFair.info (yes I have lots of links)

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> 22.10.2005 06:32:15 Hi David, Did you use the 'Konverter' mentioned in the prior message? ======= <<"David Thielen" <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote in message news:1c6jl1hs69m9p4t7n3ss5soqcph49lh5hk[ at ]4ax.com... Getting closer... Any idea how to decompress it? thanks - dave >> -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> David Thielen <david[ at ]windward.net> 24.10.2005 01:02:39 On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:32:15 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hi David, > >Did you use the 'Konverter' mentioned in the prior message? Yep - it did great. However, I need to be able to decompress it in our java engine. I sent them an email asking if they could tell me how to do it - but no answer yet. thanks - dave >======= > <<"David Thielen" <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote in message news:1c6jl1hs69m9p4t7n3ss5soqcph49lh5hk[ at ]4ax.com... >Getting closer... Any idea how to decompress it? > >thanks - dave >> david[ at ]at-at-at[ at ]windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com Page 2 Stage -- http://www.Page2Stage.com Enemy Nations -- http://www.EnemyNations.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Barbie Science Fair -- http://www.BarbieScienceFair.info (yes I have lots of links)

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> David Thielen <david[ at ]windward.net> 26.10.2005 02:47:15 Success!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to the gzip info from someone on the Word team, I have this figured out for WordML (still working through rtf). I placed the solution on my weblog so I can edit it as I learn more - http://thielen.typepad.com/programming/2005/10/anatomy_of_a_wm.html Also, I was never able to find the wmf (not emf) structures documented on msdn or the microsoft web site - it's referenced, but never listed. thanks - dave On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:52:49 -0600, David Thielen <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hi; > >When there is an OLE object in a WordML file, along with the data that >is understood only by the application that created the object, there >is also a bitmap of the the drawn object - so it can display on >systems that do not have the program that created the object >installed. > >I created an example (using the equation editor) and the result is: > ><w:p> > <w:pict> > <v:shapetype ... > <w:binData w:name="wordml://08000001.wmz">H4sIAAAA ... >qAEAAA==</w:binData> > <v:shape ... > <o:OLEObject ... > </w:pict> ></w:p> > >The binData is probably uuencoded. But I decoded it and it doesn't >seem to be any know format - I even tried it as a metafile. (My tests >were to decode it and then try to load it in PaintShop Pro using each >format. I also looked for the EMF signature bytes - they aren't in >there.) > >So my question is, what is the format of this image? > >thanks - dave david[ at ]at-at-at[ at ]windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com Page 2 Stage -- http://www.Page2Stage.com Enemy Nations -- http://www.EnemyNations.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Barbie Science Fair -- http://www.BarbieScienceFair.info (yes I have lots of links)

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> 26.10.2005 15:02:48 Hi Dave, Cool :) I knew it used gzip, but wasn't sure what changed from Office 2000 to later that made Winzip/PKZip and some others not be able to open the archives to extract the files. On your second point, could you clarify what it is you're looking for within the WMF (16 bit) file you extracted that you're not finding? My understanding was that it was just the physical WMF you were looking to use. ========== <<"David Thielen" <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote in message news:4hrtl19jui49a5b9eo9oie41ad0s3qp88j[ at ]4ax.com... Success!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to the gzip info from someone on the Word team, I have this figured out for WordML (still working through rtf). I placed the solution on my weblog so I can edit it as I learn more - http://thielen.typepad.com/programming/2005/10/anatomy_of_a_wm.html Also, I was never able to find the wmf (not emf) structures documented on msdn or the microsoft web site - it's referenced, but never listed. thanks - dave >> -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Re: What is <w:pict><w:binData w:name='wordml://08000001.wmz'> David Thielen <david[ at ]windward.net> 27.10.2005 04:00:32 Hi; If only it were so easy. Our engine runs in java (.net version using J#) so for the java version I have to read the records and create a bitmap so I can then place the bitmap of the OLE object in the final report. I have it all working well now except that I can't get java to not map chars to unicode when writing a string to Graphics2D. In other words, I get byte 0xe5 for the SUM symbol in the symbol font - but the unicode value 0xE5 is undefined in symbol so I get that little box. thanks - dave On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:02:48 -0700, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Hi Dave, > >Cool :) I knew it used gzip, but wasn't sure what changed >from Office 2000 to later that made Winzip/PKZip and some others >not be able to open the archives to extract the files. > >On your second point, could you clarify what it is you're >looking for within the WMF (16 bit) file you extracted that >you're not finding? My understanding was that it was just the >physical WMF you were looking to use. > >========== > <<"David Thielen" <david[ at ]windward.net> wrote in message news:4hrtl19jui49a5b9eo9oie41ad0s3qp88j[ at ]4ax.com... >Success!!!!!!!!!!! > >Thanks to the gzip info from someone on the Word team, I have this >figured out for WordML (still working through rtf). I placed the >solution on my weblog so I can edit it as I learn more - >http://thielen.typepad.com/programming/2005/10/anatomy_of_a_wm.html > >Also, I was never able to find the wmf (not emf) structures documented >on msdn or the microsoft web site - it's referenced, but never listed. > >thanks - dave >> david[ at ]at-at-at[ at ]windward.dot.dot.net Windward Reports -- http://www.WindwardReports.com Page 2 Stage -- http://www.Page2Stage.com Enemy Nations -- http://www.EnemyNations.com me -- http://dave.thielen.com Barbie Science Fair -- http://www.BarbieScienceFair.info (yes I have lots of links)