1. Feedback
  2. Blazor
  3. 72346

Welcome to the Blazor feedback portal. We’re happy you’re here! If you have feedback on how to improve the Blazor, we’d love to hear it!

  • Check out the features or bugs others have reported and vote on your favorites. Feedback will be prioritized based on popularity.
  • If you have feedback that’s not listed yet, submit your own.

Thanks for joining our community and helping improve Syncfusion products!

1
Vote

Support For WMF Image in Blazor Spreadsheet

Currently, WMF (Windows Metafile) images are not rendered in the Spreadsheet component because this vector format is unsupported in web environments. As part of internal validation, we tested converting WMF images to PNG and rendering the resulting PNG within the Spreadsheet. The converted output displays successfully and aligns with expected rendering behavior for supported formats.

To improve compatibility when importing Excel files that contain WMF images, an enhancement is proposed to integrate an automatic WMF-to-PNG conversion mechanism within the Excel library (XlsIO) or Spreadsheet import pipeline.

Requested Enhancement:
Add a feature that allows the system to:

  1. Detect WMF images during Excel file import.
  2. Convert WMF images into PNG (or other supported raster formats) internally.
  3. Render the converted image seamlessly within the Spreadsheet component.

This enhancement would provide consistent rendering for WMF images without requiring manual conversion by end users.

Benefits:

  • Ensures WMF images display correctly in web-based Spreadsheet components.
  • Reduces manual preprocessing of Excel files.
  • Improves compatibility with Excel documents containing legacy vector images.