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Thanks for your answer.
Here some more information about my tests:

I'm testing on 32-Bit-Windows-XP (I have to...) and on 64-Bit-Windows-7

On my 32-Bit-Windows-XP-PC I get several error-messages testing different emf-files:
- with some emf-Files the text is not shown  (see my first post and the link to the example-file which can be downloaded from mediafire)
- some emf-files the graphic is not shown collectly
- some emf-files result in an divide by zero error and nothing is shown

On my 64-Bit-Windows-7-PC there is just one Problem:
- with some emf-Files the text is not shown (see my first post and the link to the example-file which can be downloaded from mediafire)

The same emf-files which causes the problems on the XP-PC are shown correctly on the Win7-PC.
So I think the reason is a newer GDIPLUS.DLL.

But all files which causes problems with the code from my first post from SynGdiPlus are shown correctly and with very good quality
if I open them with windows-paint, windows-picture and fax viewer, EMFExplorer or IrfanView! Even on my XP-PC!
And I think all these tools also use GDI. So the GDIPLUS.DLL on my XP-PC should be ok.

It's all a little bit frustrating...

@ab: did you have some time to test my emf-file?

Thanks again for your support so far!

I'll go on looking at the changes and there are a lot of features,
except this pdf/a-stuff, that are very usefull.
It's still a great project!

Did you have time to look at the validations and
are you planning any changes for the pdf/a-problem?

Sorry for asking again...   :-)

ok, I finally tested the PDF-Files with "pdfToolbox" from Callas-Software:

The PDF-Format is detected as "PDF/A-1a" and the validation shows 4 errors in both tested files.
(same files as I described in my last post)

You can download the results here: http://www.divshare.com/download/15153187-774
(sorry, it's all in german)

I think the validation with "pdfToolbox" from Callas-Software must be the only one, which we have to believe,
cause they made the Preflight-Functions for Adobe Acrobat.
So the online-validation and the validation with Intarsys-Software seem to be not working correct.

I checked also PDFCreator with "pdfToolbox": The detected Format here is "PDF/A-1b" and validation runs without any problems.
(and no problems with the logo here)

I still would rather use your PDF Engine before having to use the external PDFCreator. The PDF/A-Format is
also better than in PDFCreator.
Maybe the results of my test with "pdfToolbox" give you some hints for not noticed bugs in the PDF Engine?

If you make some changes in PDF Engine: My Demo-Version of "pdfToolbox" ends in 14 days from today.
After that I can't validate any more except I would buy the full version.

Many thanks to your changes to SynPdf.pas!!

And yes, I think you could be very proud of this open source project and all the other synopse-projects!! :-)

So the online-validation of pdf/a-files created with "ExportPDF" of SQLite3Pages.pas works fine!
And I don't get any more EZeroDivide-Exception with "RenderMetaFile". But, as you say, the logo of my example-file
is not displayed.

I'm testing also the tool "PDFCreator" to create PDF/A - Files but the online-validation of those files also failed.
And I don't want to use another external software, I really would like to use your PDF Engine!

To get sure that the online-validation works correct, I looked for another possibility to check this and I found a
tool named "PDF/A Live!" here: http://www.intarsys.de/produkte/pdfa-live
(Download-File: http://www.intarsys.de/misc/downloads/s … 5.1.2.exe)

This Tool says that the PDF/A - Files created by "PDFCreator" and created by your PDF-Engine are both not PDF/A-Conform.

Maybe I shouldn't believe all this validation-stuff....

If this is ok for you I want to explain the whole problem:

I'm working on a Delphi4-Project in which you can do 3 several print-outputs:
1. Printing with an ActiveX-Component "THighEditPro". It's from Heiler-Software (http://www.heiler.de)
    This component is no longer supported from Heiler-Software since 1999 (!!) but I still have to handle it.
     (and still have to do this in a Delphi4-Project...)
2. Printing with Word over OLE-Automation (--> Word_TLB.pas)
3. Printing with QuickReport

So in 2004 I had to find a solution to archive all printed documents. I found the vprinter-component of mabuse.de
and I thought it's the easiest and best way to "grab" the emf-files out of the spool-files after being send to the printer.

All this works fine all the years. (the fact that I used the emf-format is just because those format is saved within the spool-files)

Now the archived documents should also be saved in other formats like TIF and PDF/A. So that's the reason I'm "ending" here...   :-)

If there is another way (without vprinter) to directly save all print-output above in MetaFiles, I would do so.
But I don't know how to do this. QuickReport uses MetaFiles internal (as you also wrote here in the forum),
but HighEditPro doesn't. And I don't know if I could save Word-Dokuments over OLE directly in EMF or PDF/A...

So this is the problem. Maybe there's another solution with "RenderMetaFile" so that the logo in my emf-example-file
is displayed. Then I could use vprinter in combination with PDF-Engine to solve all problems.

If all would be ok, I want to create a Delphi6-DLL to call from the Delphi4-Projekt. (cause PDF-Engine doesn't work with delphi4, as
mentioned here in the forum)

So if you have any ideas, let me know...   :-)

Converting to JPG and TIFF works fine now with the global SaveAs() procedure (Sometimes I'm a little too blind...)

I have also no problems now with BMP-Size-Handling...

But I do still get the EZeroDivide-Exception when trying to convert to PDF/A    :-(
TGDIPlusFull.Create is only once called in your example-project "TestSynGdiPlusMain" (I didn't change the code)

Did you have time to look at my example-emf-file?

Thanks again!

I create EMF-Files mit Parts of the "Virtual Printer" from mabuse.de (http://www.mabuse.de/tech-vprinter.mhtml)

I use this since 2004 in a Delphi 4 - Projekt. I use only parts of Virtual Printer and as I downloaded
it in 2004 some of the parts were buggy. I fixed all parts I needed and all works great.

You have to set the print-processor of any printer-driver to emf-output and so with the parts of Virtual Printer
you can "filter" the emf-files out of the spool-files.

We use this to archive documents in our software.

The new request is to save those documents also in other formats like, JPG, TIFF and PDF/A.
So I found your PDF-Engine.
(Maybe I should use your GDI+ to create TIFF or JPG? Is it better than the "normal" components from Graphics.pas or jpeg.pas?)

In my example-emf-file is a little picture and some formatted text. I can open it with EmfExplorer without problems.
You can download the emf-file here: http://www.divshare.com/download/15093007-80e

Thanks!