Windows Metafile (WMF) to JPEG converter

Windows Metafile (WMF) pages are laid out by our office engine and rendered to JPEG by our image engine, one image per page; publications with several pages download as a ZIP.

Converted with Office engine → Image engine · input deleted within 24 h
Free: 5 conversions a day · 5 MB each
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What changes

Windows Metafile (WMF) pages are laid out by our office engine and rendered to JPEG by our image engine, one image per page; publications with several pages download as a ZIP.
EXIF, color profiles, layers, animation frames, and camera metadata may be stripped unless the destination requires minimal metadata.
Transparency stays for PNG and WebP but is filled with the selected background for JPEG, BMP, PDF, and other opaque targets.
Fonts missing on the server are substituted before rendering, so text can wrap differently from the original file.
SVG input is rasterized at the requested dimensions or DPI, producing pixels rather than editable vector paths.
Server-only codecs or PDF rendering are used when browsers cannot safely handle the pair.

A real Windows Metafile (WMF) → JPEG run

We converted our Windows Metafile (WMF) sample (50 KB) with Office engine → Image engine on 2026-10-20. It took 1.6 s and produced a 3 KB JPEG file, 94% smaller than the input. The engine raised 1 warning, listed below.

Input · sample.wmf · 50 KB

51,590 bytes

Output · sample.jpg · 3 KB

248 × 160 px, baseline

Width: 248
Height: 160
Encoding: baseline

PDF pages rendered as images; selectable text is not preserved.

Options

width: Set the output width in pixels.
height: Set the output height in pixels.
fit: Contain, cover, or fill within the requested dimensions.
quality: Set lossy output quality where the codec supports it.
background: Fill transparency with this color for opaque formats.
stripMetadata: Remove source metadata when writing the output.
dpi: Rasterize SVG or PDF-derived pixels at the requested scale where supported.

Example

input

Windows Metafile (WMF) image, 1200 × 800 pixels

output

JPEG image resized or re-encoded without OCR text extraction

Do it in code

cli

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf input.wmf && pdftoppm -jpeg -r 144 input.pdf slide

Windows Metafile (WMF) to JPEG by API or MCP

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

curl

curl -X POST https://filetypeconverters.com/api/v1/convert \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FTC_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@input.wmf" -F "from=wmf" -F "to=jpg" \
  -F 'options={"width":0}' \
  --output output.jpg

Options this engine accepts for Windows Metafile (WMF) → JPEG

Key	Applies to	Type	Default
width	Writing JPEG	number	0
height	Writing JPEG	number	0
fit	Writing JPEG	contain · cover · fill	contain
quality	Writing JPEG	number	90
background	Writing JPEG	string	#ffffff
stripMetadata	Writing JPEG	boolean	true

API reference

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This converter works today; a tested write-up of what changes for Windows Metafile (WMF) → JPEG is in progress.