Try setting a clip region on before creating the .wmf file. This should
eliminated the lines extending outside the map window.
Ron Simpson
GeoSim Services Inc.
Vancouver, BC
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Scott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 8:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MI rogue lines in wmf file
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been making a map of a river catchment which includes a layer of
> the vegetation. When I print this map from a layout window it comes out
> perfectly. However I need to use the map in a report so I saved the
> layout window as a wmf file and inserted it into a word document. When I
> inserted the wmf picture into Microsoft WORD and printed it, the map has a string
> of faint lines radiating from one node. The node is part of a shaded polygon
> showing the forest boundary in the catchment. The radiating lines appear
> to connect to other nodes on the forest polygon. These radiating lines
> are the same colour (green) as the shading I used for the forest polygon, and
> do not appear if I remove the shading. The radiating lines do not appear
> on the computer monitor, but only when I print it. I have tried with both
> a black and white laser printer and a colour laser printer, and in both
> instances these unwanted radiating lines appear.
>
> Can anyone suggest why these lines appear and how i can get rid of them
> (They do not show up on a BMP image but the BMP image is quite poor
> quality compared with the wmf image.)
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