Whiteariel Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 I use Affinity Designer in macOS, with Mac mini M1 In export pop-up window, there is no wmf tap. How can I activate it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Hello @Whitearieland welcome to the forums. In the export dialogue, click on More (at the botom), then select the Preset box. WMF is at the bottom of the list. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 I’m fairly sure that WMF and EMF exports are only available in the Windows versions of the applications. See the moderator posts in this thread: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/53487-export-to-wmfemf/ You might be able to find a web-based converter to create WMF/EMFs from SVGs (or similar). Whiteariel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiteariel Posted April 21, 2022 Author Share Posted April 21, 2022 OK, I got it! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 23 hours ago, GarryP said: See the moderator posts in this thread: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/53487-export-to-wmfemf/ Btw, the referred Serif posts were pretty sad reading, making silly and cheap comments on WMF/EMF being inferior "legacy" formats and that other, "better" formats like SVG being available for similar tasks. To this day, Affinity apps cannot basically import editable (inline) equations in any other format than in WMF/EMF (and can do this just on Windows). According to Serif, "other apps", too, only use native Windows API to support these platform meta formats, which would then explain why WMF/EMF formats are not "available" on macOS, but e.g. VectorStyler can import and export WMF also with its macOS version, as can LibreOffice. macOS Office apps naturally read WMF files, as does QuarkXPress [and Illustrator, of course]. I have not been able to check whether CorelDRAW does, but I believe that they, too, have bothered to write some code that is not dependent on native API calls. I am not praising WMF over anything else but it can still be useful if nothing better is available. OP's expectation on this format being available also on macOS version is completely valid. Serif does what they want and can, but they could spare us from excuses and just say how it is: limited resources, so need to prioritize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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