PUB: Publisher Cannot Recolor Some Windows Metafiles

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This problem occurs most often with older Windows metafile graphics or OLE source programs. Copying the graphic and pasting it as a picture can sometimes eliminate device-dependent elements.

Device-dependent information is information that requires an external source to define it. To illustrate how device-dependent information works, imagine that you want to tell someone else to open a box of crayons and draw a blue square. You can do this by giving device-dependent or device- independent instructions:

• Device-Dependent Instructions

  Open a totally unused box of Brand X crayons. Take the third crayon from the left and draw a square with it.

• Device-Independent Instructions

  Open any box of crayons. Take the blue crayon and draw a square with it.

Notice that nowhere in the device-dependent instructions was the color blue mentioned. To correctly carry out those instructions, the box of crayons must have the blue crayon as the third from the left, and it must be the correct brand of crayon. You can carry out the device-independent instructions, on the other hand, with any box of crayons that includes a blue one.