Does WPF support reading/writing WMF/EMF files natively?

Question

Can Windows Presentation Foundation read/write WMF/EMF files without having to use WinForms Interop or Win32.

If it does not, what is the reason?

Answer 1

A quick search on MSDN reveals a thread containing a post by Peggi Goodwin, a PM at Microsoft:

WPF does not support the EMF and WMF image formats. These formats are more susceptible to security vulnerabilities than other image formats, so we do not intend to support them.

Answer 2

I did it !!!

I'm using ComponentOne's WPF chart in my real code but to keep the example simple I just did a button. But it DOES work on Complex wpf widgets. Fonts, Transparency, AntiAlias etc. everything works. And I can paste into Word and change labels on charts etc.

Basically I decimate the XAML to XPS then import it back into XAML.

Then I used an open source project that converts XAML to WMF called XAMLToys.

XAMLToys would fail 99% of the time because you cannot serial complex XAML objects

http://softronix.com/download/WpfToWmfClipboard.zip

Big kudos to these two projects

http://xamltoys.codeplex.com/

http://khason.net/blog/converting-fixeddocument-xpsdocument-too-to-flowdocument/