Convert EMF/WMF files to PNG/JPG

Question

I am receiving an form upload with a Word docx document. I got all the parsing done successfully. I have to then display that Word document on the web.

The problem I am

Answer 1

You need to understand what you are dealing with in order to see why what you are attempting to do is problematic. WMF files (or the more recent EMF and EMF+ formats) require Windows GDI to render the image it describes. So there is no simple solution when you are converting this format outside of Windows, since you need to replicate the GDI API.

One solution is to use the unoconv tool which relies on the UNO bindings for OpenOffice/LibreOffice. A second solution would use the pyemf module to decode the input, and then a second tool (to be done by you) would render it.