Metafile format

Metafile format is a Windows-specific data format. It's important to us Fathom users because whenever you paste a picture into Fathom as an icon or as a picture it has to be in this format. Usually, when you copy art from a paint program or from a screen shot, it's in bitmap format (not metafile).

How do you change a bitmap to metafile format? One easy way is to paste the art into Word (or some other program), then copy the resulting graphic. Now the clipboard is in metafile format, ready for pasting into Fathom.

When you copy a graph from Fathom, it's in metafile format.