You may want to rotate the page when converting emf to pcx format file.Because you may want to do some designs about the image.But how to do such a thing and which software can be used?In this article,you will get some useful information about how to rotate the page when converting emf to pcx and also know some information about a kind of converting software--HTML Converter Command Line.
HTML Converter Command Line is a powerful HTML conversion software. It allows you to create previews or thumbnails of web pages in a number of different formats, such as TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, TGA, JP2 (JPEG2000), PNM, etc. HTML Converter Command Line also allows you to convert web pages to PDF, PS (postscript), WMF, EMF vector formats.You can download the software by clicking the link https://www.verypdf.com/htmltools/htmltools.zip. You will find HTML Converter Command Line is a zip file and needs to be unzipped to your computer.
Please go on reading the following part,you will know the details to rotate the page when converting emf to pcx.
Step1.Run cmd.exe program
There are two ways to launch cmd.exe program.One way is to click “start”—“run” and input “cmd” in “open” edit box of the popup dialog box.Then click “OK” button.Please see Figure1 and Figure2.The other way is just using the hot key “Windows”+ “R” to open “Run” dialog box and do the same work as mentioned above.
Figure1.
Figure2.
After that,you will see cmd.exe dialog box where you can input your DOS commands.
Step2.Input command line
Someone doesn’t like command like due to the long and boring DOS commands.But if you have ever benefit from the command line once,you will love it.The command line contains called program which refers to htmltools.exe in the conversion of emf to pcx,parameters which you need to set,source file which you want to convert and target file which you want to get.There is a basic structure for you to follow:
htmltools.exe –rotate value “input.emf” output.pcx
htmltools.exe stands for the called program.It is the executable file in the software HTML Converter Command Line,also the core of the software.
–rotate value stands for the parameter about rotating page.
“input.emf” stands for source file.
output.pcx stands for target file.
Please see Figure3.
Figure3.
"C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Local Settings\Temp\htmltools\htmltools.exe" -rotate 90 "C:\Program Files\docPrint Pro v5.0\blank.emf" blank.pcx
"C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Local Settings\Temp\htmltools\htmltools.exe" is the path of htmltools.exe.You can drag the file from its folder to cmd.exe dialog box if you don’t want to input a long path.
-rotate 90 is the rotation angle of target file.You can set the value as 90,180 and 270.
"C:\Program Files\docPrint Pro v5.0\blank.emf" is the source file.
blank.pcx is the name of target file.
Step3.Find the target file.
If you didn’t set the path for target file,the file will be saved in current directory like the example in Figure2.Of course,you can also specify the directory for the target file yourself.