Format
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile
- Version
- 1.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: image/emf
- PUID: x-fmt/153
- Format type
-
- Image (Raster)
- Image (Vector)
- Description
- The Enhanced Metafile format is a 32-bit format that can contain both vector information and bitmap information. This format contains extended features over the Windows Metafile Format, including built-in scaling information, and improvements in color palettes and device independence.
- Format encoding
- Text
- File extensions
-
emf - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
- Supported by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 1.0 (Variation 1)
- Description
- Record Type EMR_HEADER (00000001h); Record Size (4 bytes) decimal 88; Bounds (16 bytes); Frame (16 bytes); at offset 40 signature (“EMF “); Version (00010000h); size of the metafile in bytes (4 bytes); number of records in the metafile (4 bytes); number of handles (2 bytes); reserved (2 bytes); nDescription--number of characters in the Description (32-bit integer) zero
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
0100000058000000{32}20454D4600000100{16}00000000- Endianness
- None
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 1.0 (Variation 2)
- Description
- Record Type EMR_HEADER (01000000h); Record Size (4 bytes) greater than 88; Bounds (16 bytes); Frame (16 bytes); at offset 40 signature (“EMF “); Version (00010000h); size of the metafile in bytes (4 bytes); number of records in the metafile (4 bytes); number of handles (2 bytes); reserved (2 bytes); nDescription--number of characters in the Description (32-bit integer) greater than zero; offDescription—offset from the beginning of this record to the beginning of the description (32-bit integer) 88
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
01000000{36}20454D4600000100{16}58000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V86
- Release date
- 27 July 2016
-
Updated
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 1.0: Adjusted MIME type from deprecated image/x-emf to image/emf, added description.
-
V51
- Release date
- 15 July 2011
-
Added signature
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 1.0: Signatures submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.
-
Updated
Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 1.0: Record title updated to distinguish different versions.