WMF

Updated: 03/06/2020 by Computer Hope

WMF may refer to any of the following:

1. In Windows, a metafile is a file with information regarding one or more other files. Called a WMF (Windows Metafile Format), it is commonly a graphics file format, containing information for vector graphics or bitmap files. The WMF contains a list of function calls that Windows uses in its GDI (Graphics Device Interface) layer to display images on a computer monitor.

WMF was originally released in 1992 as a 16-bit format file for Windows 3.0 and later as a 32-bit version in 1993 called EMF (Enhanced MetaFile). For Windows XP, the EMF+ (Enhanced MetaFile format plus extensions) format was released. There are also compressed WMFs, called WMZ (compressed Windows metafile) and compressed EMZ (Windows enhanced metafile).

2. WMF is also short for Wikimedia Foundation.

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