Hi Bryan, I work with cairo using EMF and my experience is that you get a bitmap in the EMF if you use cairo functions not supported by GDI (or EMF). These include gradients and transparency. You can set the resolution of the image cairo uses with cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution. If you want to insert a bitmap, EMF can only store it in an uncompressed format, so I see no way around that being exploded in size. I am sure I do not get your problem fully, so my suggestions above are probably off-target. Zoltan <div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/8 Bryan Montgomery <<a href="mailto:monty@english.net">monty@english.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I've been trying to find a process today to generate an image to EMF (Windows Enhanced MetaFile). I'm able to use the Java HEP package to create an EMF - however that seems to just embed the bitmap and you end up with a 2MB file as opposed to the attached SVG file. Searching google, I came across this thread - <a href="http://old.nabble.com/Fwd:--SVG-to-EMF-quality-p25867395.html" target="_blank">http://old.nabble.com/Fwd:--SVG-to-EMF-quality-p25867395.html</a>. I've tried compiling the code in the thread to accomplish this, but I am left with an unsatisifed link error for the draw function. It's been a long time since I worked with MSVC! I was wondering if anyone has code that I could compile (or possibly execute) on Windows - and whether this will produce an EMF file of a similar size to the SVG file ( HEP also produces similar sized pdf and eps files - just not emf) - or if it will also balloon to 2MB. Thanks, Bryan. /* Undo the scale applied to the GDI CTM */ cairo_scale (cr, 16, 16); draw (cr); cairo_destroy (cr); -- cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> </blockquote></div>