Export to emf don't activate antialiasing

Question

Export a yEd graph to emf format don't activate antialiased property, when i'm importing emf file into other program (like MS Word) the graph isn't antialiased, i think that is an important property that makes the document looks better.

MS Office don't have a good support to other formats, and is important to me use vectored graphics.

yEd 1.1

JRE 1.6.0_27

windows XP SP3

Office 2007

Answer 1

I am sorry, but i am not quite sure I understand your post. Are you asking for antialiasing support in EMF export? If so, I am afraid that does not make too much sense (to me). EMF is (as you know) a vector graphics format. Therefore antialiasing would have to be a feature of the viewer application (MS Word in your case), not the generator application (yEd). (Try to think of an EMF file as a set of drawing instructions, like "draw a line", "draw a curve".  How these instructions are realized is - more or less - up to the viewer application.)

Comments

OK, I thought the same, but have not found any option in MS WORD about it. All EMF that I have (from MS VISIO and others) are displayed antialiased in MS WORD, only EMF files from yEd aren't displayed antialiased.
I supouse that it was an option in exported EMF file. If you search "emf antialiasing" in google there is a lot of forums with questions similar to this, and there is a lot of confusion with antialiased EMF. Of course there are many answers that say "is an option in the renderer", i don't know, but only EMF files from yEd aren't displayed antialiased into my MS WORD.

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One way to solve this is to export to SVG from yEd, then open the SVG in Inkscape and save as EMF. This avoids the aliased look.

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OK, it's a nice workaround :-)