Convert to Symbol.

The Convert to Symbol (Right-click on the figur) option allows commands and options available for E3 native objects (such as Rotation) to be also used by objects in the Gallery and by other Metafiles (WMF and EMF files). However, there are a few limitations.

WMF and EMF files are made from a sequence of ‘records’, which are Windows GDI’s drawing operations. When converting a WMF or EMF into symbol, the system will be required to convert each ‘record’ of the file into the corresponding drawing primitive format supported by E3: line, bezier, text, circle, round rectangle, etc. There may be several ‘records’ in a WMF or EMF which do not support these formats. These ‘records’ are then simply ignored during conversion.

Below is a list of EMF Records supported by EMF’s conversion into a symbol in E3:

EMR_SETBKCOLOR
EMR_SETBKMODE
EMR_SELECTOBJECT
EMR_DELETEOBJECT
EMR_CREATEPEN
EMR_CREATEBRUSHINDIRECT
EMR_SETWINDOWORGEX
EMR_SETWINDOWEXTEX
EMR_SETVIEWPORTORGEX
EMR_SETVIEWPORTEXTEX
EMR_POLYGON16
EMR_POLYPOLYGON16
EMR_POLYLINETO16
EMR_POLYLINE16
EMR_POLYPOLYLINE16
EMR_RECTANGLE
EMR_ELLIPSE
EMR_ARCTO
EMR_ARC
EMR_CHORD
EMR_PIE
EMR_ROUNDRECT
EMR_POLYBEZIERTO16
EMR_POLYBEZIER16

Below is a list of EMF Records NOT supported by EMF’s conversion into a symbol in E3:

EMR_ABORTPATH
EMR_ANGLEARC
EMR_BEGINPATH
EMR_BITBLT
EMR_CLOSEFIGURE
EMR_CREATEDIBPATTERNBRUSHPT
EMR_CREATEMONOBRUSH
EMR_CREATEPALETTE
EMR_ENDPATH
EMR_EOF
EMR_EXCLUDECLIPRECT
EMR_EXTCREATEFONTINDIRECTW
EMR_EXTCREATEPEN
EMR_EXTFLOODFILL
EMR_EXTSELECTCLIPRGN
EMR_EXTTEXTOUTA
EMR_EXTTEXTOUTW
EMR_FILLPATH
EMR_FILLRGN
EMR_FLATTENPATH
EMR_FRAMERGN
EMR_GDICOMMENT
EMR_INTERSECTCLIPRECT
EMR_INVERTRGN
EMR_LINETO
EMR_MASKBLT
EMR_MODIFYWORLDTRANSFORM
EMR_MOVETOEX
EMR_OFFSETCLIPRGN
EMR_PAINTRGN
EMR_PLGBLT
EMR_POLYBEZIER
EMR_POLYBEZIERTO
EMR_POLYDRAW
EMR_POLYDRAW16
EMR_POLYGON
EMR_POLYLINE
EMR_POLYLINETO
EMR_POLYPOLYGON
EMR_POLYPOLYLINE
EMR_POLYTEXTOUTA
EMR_POLYTEXTOUTW
EMR_REALIZEPALETTE
EMR_RESIZEPALETTE
EMR_RESTOREDC
EMR_SAVEDC
EMR_SCALEVIEWPORTEXTEX
EMR_SCALEWINDOWEXTEX
EMR_SELECTCLIPPATH
EMR_SELECTPALETTE
EMR_SETARCDIRECTION
EMR_SETCOLORADJUSTMENT
EMR_SETDIBITSTODEVICE
EMR_SETMAPMODE
EMR_SETMAPPERFLAGS
EMR_SETMETARGN
EMR_SETMITERLIMIT
EMR_SETPALETTEENTRIES
EMR_SETPIXELV
EMR_SETPOLYFILLMODE
EMR_SETROP2
EMR_SETSTRETCHBLTMODE
EMR_SETTEXTALIGN
EMR_SETTEXTCOLOR
EMR_SETWORLDTRANSFORM
EMR_STRETCHBLT
EMR_STRETCHDIBITS
EMR_STROKEANDFILLPATH
EMR_STROKEPATH
EMR_WIDENPATH
EMR_CREATECOLORSPACE
EMR_DELETECOLORSPACE
EMR_GLSBOUNDEDRECORD
EMR_GLSRECORD
EMR_PIXELFORMAT
EMR_SETCOLORSPACE
EMR_SETICMMODE