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Details for: Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 2.0
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Signatures
External signatures File extension: emf
Internal signatures
Name Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 2.0 (Variation 1)
Description Record Type EMR_HEADER (00000001h); Record Size (4 bytes) 100 decimal; Bounds (16 bytes); Frame (16 bytes); signature (“EMF “; Version (00010000h); size of the metafile in bytes (4 bytes); number of records in the metafile (4 bytes); number of handles (2 bytes); reserved (2 bytes); nDescription--number of characters in the Description (32-bit integer) zero ; offDescription—offset from the beginning of this record to the beginning of the description (32-bit integer); number of entries in the palette (4 bytes); Device Size in pixels (8 bytes); device size in millimeters (8 bytes); cbPixelFormat—size of the PixelFormatDescriptor (4 bytes); offPixelformat—offset to the PixelFormatDescriptor (4 bytes) zero
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 0100000064000000{32}20454D4600000100{12}00000000{28}00000000
Name Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 2.0 (Variation 2)
Description Record Type EMR_HEADER (00000001h); Record Size (4 bytes) >100; Bounds (16 bytes); Frame (16 bytes); signature (“EMF “; Version (00010000h); size of the metafile in bytes (4 bytes); number of records in the metafile (4 bytes); number of handles (2 bytes); reserved (2 bytes); nDescription--number of characters in the Description (32-bit integer); offDescription—offset from the beginning of this record to the beginning of the description (32-bit integer) 100
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 01000000{36}20454D4600000100{16}64000000
Name Microsoft Windows Enhanced Metafile 2.0 (Variation 3)
Description Record Type EMR_HEADER (00000001h); Record Size (4 bytes) >100; Bounds (16 bytes); Frame (16 bytes); signature (“EMF “; Version (00010000h); size of the metafile in bytes (4 bytes); number of records in the metafile (4 bytes); number of handles (2 bytes); reserved (2 bytes); nDescription--number of characters in the Description (32-bit integer); offDescription—offset from the beginning of this record to the beginning of the description (32-bit integer); number of entries in the palette (4 bytes); Device Size in pixels (8 bytes); device size in millimeters (8 bytes); cbPixelFormat—size of the PixelFormatDescriptor (4 bytes); offPixelformat—offset to the PixelFormatDescriptor (4 bytes) 100
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 01000000{36}20454D4600000100{44}64000000
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