I contacted Irfanview support about this problem. At first, they were thinking that the problem is with my graphic card or with the graphic driver. It may be so, but unlikely on my opinion, because I had the same problem on many computers.

Then they wrote me this:

Can it be that there is a problem with the Genopro EMF generator?

It is possible.  GenoPro does store the dimension of the metafile, however this value is often ignored.  I remember having difficulties with this value from the Win9x and the Windows NT.

One thing for sure, is a very large metafile cannot be converted into bitmap because it takes too much memory.  IrfanView converts everything in a bitmap before displaying it.  If your metafile is 50,000 by 20,000, then the bitmap would be 1,000,000,000 pixels which cannot fit in memory (assuming 32 bits colors). There is no easy solution to this.

when trying to load or import an EMF file created by Genopro to Coreldraw12, you get a massege: "Invalid file format"

Humm, this is not good.  Can you try creating a .EMF file using another software and try to import it to CorelDRAW 12?  There are two scenarios: 1) GenoPro produces an invalid .emf file, or 2) CorelDRAW cannot import a valid .emf file.

I have tried to open an EMF in Corel 8 but always get the message that there is insufficient memory (I have 2Gigas of DDR and no other programs open at the time)

I created a new EMF file with Coreldraw12.

Then I opened it in Acdsee8 and converted it to PNG without any problem. the only problem was with EMF files which were created by genopro.

It seems that the problem is with "Genopro EMF generator", and not a problem of drivers or memory.

Dan, Can you fix that??

Thank you so Much maru-san 

Here is another reply from Irfanview support about this issue:

as Maru-san said before, the program at  www.shibaguchi.com/molip/metaconverte.html

works great to load large EMF created by Genopro. (Thank you again Maru-san   )

So for now, it's not so urgent to fix the "so called a bug" at the Genopro Emf creatir

However, for the future, I think it would be impotent to think of a solution, that ENF files from Genopro will open properly  on such a famous program like Irfanview.

I have read these posts with great interest since I have also concluded there is something wrong with the Genopro EMF renderer.

For some years, I used Paintshop8 with both Genopro1 and Genopro2 and sucessfully exported trees and converted them to raster formats for my projects.

I updated to "Jasc PaintshopPro9" and found it would not reproduce the circles representing female gender (the lines and square male symbols were OK). Although I preferrred PSP9, I kept PSP8 especially to render the Genopro EMF trees but it does hog a lot of disk space.

More recently I installed a trial version of "PSP Photo 12" now marketed by Corel and this had the same fault as PSP9.

I have tried in vain to get any support from Corel - they will not answer email or provide a space such as this for comment.

I have tried "Metafile Converter" (www.shibaguchi.com/molip/metaconverte.html) and found this works up to a point but the label fonts have such a strong dose of antialias that the lettering is too blurred to read.

I have also tried Inkscape which will not even look at an EMF file from Genopro.

From what I read in this forum, the fault probably lies with Genopro whose headers may not be compatible with the more fussy (or stricter standards) photo rendering programs.

GenoPro is a superb genealogy program but if the problem with EMF files cannot fixed, would it be possible to provide an export format in WMF or maybe SVG which seems to be acceptable to the more sophisticated photo programs.

David Gardiner
kermit99@xtra.co.nz

David Gardiner

I tried your SVG report script with mixed results. I used it to report to a SVG file and picked it up with Inkscape. Using Inkscape to export to PNG format worked fine.

I'm afraid the SVG files were not very readable by Paintshop Pro. Results at native picture size came out blank but I got partial images when I altered the picture size before importing.

I did try using Inkscape to export the SVG file to EMF format - this imported into PSP Pro but the transparent label borders showed as did that page frame which displays on Inkscape (I couldn't find any way of turning this off). Also some of the text was displaced.

Below is part of this Inkscape to PSP mess.

I can only conclude that PSP Pro is not geared correctly for EMF and SVG files and that Inkscape is - Or are there many standards for these vector graphics???

Maybe the Genopro experts could check out the problem or maybe provide an export module to make normal raster files.

Regards,

David Gardiner

I'm using (www.shibaguchi.com/molip/metaconverte.html)  to convert large EMF to PNG and have no problems at all with the "gender circle"

David G