[Gretl-users] EMF graphs on Windows

John Paravantis noted lately that when you paste an EMF generated by gretl into MS Word, you typically (always?) get a big margin to the top and right of the actual graph, which then needs cropping if the inserted graph is to look right. I've investigated some more, and I believe this is a problem with the interaction of Word and the Windows clipboard. If you save the same graph to File as EMF, then do Insert/Picture/from file, in MS Word, the graph comes out just fine with no excess borders. I would be interested to hear what happens if you try pasting the graph from the clipboard into OpenOffice.org on Windows. I suspect it may be handled correctly. Bugs in the Windows clipboard/Office connection are not unheard of. Until recently (Office 2003? not sure) if you simply Edit/Paste'd an EMF into Word, by default it went in as an old-style Windows Metafile (wrong, looks bad), BUT if you did Edit/Paste Special..., then the option that appeared as the default was to paste as an Enhanced Metafile (right, looks good). Go figure. That's why you get a little message box from gretl recommending use of Paste Special. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC