Hi, I am writing an OLE server application. Such applications need to provide an old format Windows Metafile (and not an Enhanced Metafile) to container applications. I attempted to create a printing surface passing on the DC for a Windows Metafile, but got an out-of memory error. I deducted that cairo does not support Metafile surfaces. Then I created an Enhanced Metafile and passed the resulting DC to cairo_win32_create_printing_surface and I was able to draw. Next, I wanted to convert the resulting metafile to a an old format Windows Metafile using the code below, but text simply disappears, if I use an OpenType font. However, if I use the "Courier" font it shows. unsigned size = GetWinMetaFileBits(hemf, 0, NULL, MM_ANISOTROPIC, pDC->m_hDC); BYTE *buff = (BYTE*)malloc(size); size = GetWinMetaFileBits(hemf, size, buff, MM_ANISOTROPIC, pDC->m_hDC); HMETAFILE hwmf = SetMetaFileBitsEx(size, buff); I attached two emf files showing the drawing and the resulting wmf files that does/does not have the text in them. (Note that wmf files have a thumbnail bitmap stored with them, which shows the text, but if you drop the wmf onto a PowerPointslide, it misses the text.) The funny thing is that both the emf and the wmf file contain the relevant textout records, but I cannot figure out why it never shows with TrueType/OpenType fonts in the wmf file. I have tried it both on Vista and XP. Can anyone give me a hint what may go wrong here, or how else to produce an old format Windows Metafile with Cairo? Zoltan