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Enhanced Metafile (EMF) to PDF converter

EMF → PDF keeps a Windows chart or diagram as vectors in a format every reader opens, with the page cut to the picture rather than an empty A4 sheet.

  • Converted with Office engine · input deleted within 24 h
  • Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
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From real runs

What you get — and what changes

  • Page size Changed

    The PDF page is trimmed to the drawing plus a margin of at least 4 pt: the 28.4 × 29.7 mm clip-art became an 88 × 92 pt page.

  • Vectors Kept

    Lines, bars and curves stay vector paths; a sine-wave plot keeps its smooth curve when zoomed in a PDF reader.

  • Text Kept

    Sprint names and axis numbers in the burndown chart are real text in Noto Sans that you can search and copy.

  • Large pictures Changed

    A 338.8 mm wide slide-sized EMF was reduced to a 552 × 314 pt page, so it no longer prints at its original physical size.

  • Code-page text Changed

    Text written in an older Windows code page rather than Unicode, like the Hebrew chart labels we tried, can turn into the wrong characters.

  • Empty or damaged files Lost

    A truncated metafile that draws nothing is refused instead of producing a blank page.

Sample conversions

Office clip-art

Input
45,876-byte EMF server icon, 28.4 × 29.7 mm.
Output
16,297-byte PDF, one 88 × 92 pt page, in 1.7 s; the icon's 12 bitmap parts are embedded as images.

Slide exported as EMF+

Input
19,264-byte EMF+ of a summary slide with coloured arcs and a paragraph of text, 338.8 × 190.2 mm.
Output
22,215-byte PDF, one 552 × 314 pt page, in 1.1 s; text is selectable, arcs are vectors.

A real Enhanced Metafile (EMF) → PDF run

We converted our Enhanced Metafile (EMF) sample (45 KB) with Office engine on 2026-10-20. It took 1.6 s and produced a 16 KB PDF file, 64% smaller than the input. The engine raised no warnings.

Input · sample.emf · 45 KB

45,876 bytes

Output · sample.pdf · 16 KB

PDF 1.6, 1 page, selectable text, 12 image objects

Version
1.6
Pages
1
Images
12
Text layer
yes

Options and when to change them

filter
Leave it unset; the drawing PDF export is chosen automatically.

Do it yourself

LibreOffice

bash
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf figure.emf

Places the picture on an A4 page with wide white margins; trim it with a PDF tool afterwards if the page size matters.

Enhanced Metafile (EMF) to PDF by API or MCP

The HTTP API and the MCP server run the exact engine this page uses (Office engine); the response carries the same warnings the web converter shows. Check support first with GET /api/v1/pairs?from=emf&to=pdf.

curl
curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.emf" -F "from=emf" -F "to=pdf" \
  --output output.pdf
API reference

When this is the wrong conversion

  • If the picture is for a web page, EMF → PNG or SVG displays directly in a browser.
  • If you need to edit the chart's data, go back to the Excel or PowerPoint file it came from; a PDF or EMF holds only the drawing.

Enhanced Metafile (EMF) to PDF questions

Is the PDF still vector?

Yes. Lines, shapes and text are drawn as vectors; only bitmaps that were inside the EMF stay bitmaps.

Why is the page so small?

We trim the page to the drawing so the picture can be placed straight into another document. A clip-art icon gets an icon-sized page.

Can I use the PDF in LaTeX?

Yes; a tight vector PDF is the usual way to include a figure with includegraphics, and it scales without blurring.

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