Last Updated: 1/27/2010 Symptoms If you install Metafile Companion on the 64-bit version of Windows (XP, Vista or 7) and enter your registration information, the program continues to ask for your registrion information each time you start Metafile Companion. Cause Metafile Companion (like all well-behaved Windows programs) saves its program settings in the Windows Registry. [...]
Symptoms If a picture with Greek characters or other symbols from the Symbol font is opened in Metafile Companion, all the Symbol font characters turn into question marks (e.g. "????"). If the file is then saved, the Greek characters or other symbols are saved as question marks (and will appear as question marks if the [...]
Symptoms If you try to display the Help file from Metafile Companion (or any other Windows program that uses uses the WinHlp32 engine), an error message ("Failed to launch help.") appears and the help is not displayed. Cause The Microsoft Vista team thought it would be a "good idea" to retire the WinHlp32 engine. For [...]
Symptoms When certain EMF files are read into Metafile Companion they appear too large with portions of the picture extending beyond the normal page area. (This is not a problem with EMF files created by Metafile Companion.) Cause EMF file sizing is based on the sizing of the current display. Windows reports the display resolution [...]
Symptoms When running Metafile Companion, all the buttons on the Color toolbar are black, white or some other color. Cause Metafile Companion assumes that the Windows 3D Objects Font Color (i.e. the text color for 3D buttons) is always black. Work-around(s) Right-click in an empty area on the Windows desktop and select Properties. Select the [...]
Symptoms When a metafile containing Rectangles or Ellipses is saved and then opened again these objects may be shifted or scaled by one picture unit. Cause The problem occurs because Windows metafiles primitives based on rectangles (e.g. Rectangles and Ellipses) are defined to include the top, left coordinate but not the bottom, right coordinate in [...]
Symptoms When using Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0 or Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 7.0, if you activate a Metafile Companion picture as an in-place OLE object and then try to resize the entire picture, the picture always reverts back to its original size. Cause This is a problem with Microsoft Word for Windows [...]
Symptoms Under Windows 95/98/Me, if you increase the thickness of patterned line, the line pattern buttons are disabled even though the patterned line is still displayed on the screen. Cause Windows 95/98/Me cannot display patterned lines for lines thicker than 1 device (screen) unit - Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista can. Under Windows 95/98/Me, Metafile Companion disables the [...]
Symptoms When you select Tools, Options, Toolbars and change the setting of Large Buttons, the docked toolbars are resized correctly but the floating toobars are not. Cause Possibly a problem in the compiler toolbar code. Work-around(s) Click on the resizing border of the floating toolbox to have it redrawn at it's proper size, or Exit [...]
Symptoms When you try to start Metafile Companion (or any other OLE server Windows program built with an older version of the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library) on a "limited" (restricted) user account, the following warning message appears: Failed to update the system registry. Please try using REGEDIT. Cause There was a bug in code [...]
