WMF crash, EMF not loading in Win9x

[Controller]

2) On Windows 98 (95/ME too?), emf files generated with inkscape appear to load, but cannot be rendered (PlayEnhMetaFile).

According to MSDN...
"Windows 95 and Windows 98: PlayEnhMetaFile is subject to the limitations of the Windows 95 GDI. For example, Windows 95 supports only 16-bit signed coordinates. For records that contain 32-bit values, Windows 95 fails to play the record if the values are not in the range -32,768 to 32,767."
I ensured no object has negative coordinates (plenty of margin to the document border, to be sure), but that doesn't seem to help either.

1) With the emf problem, I wanted to try with the wmf format, but when saving I get an phyton.exe crash followed by "UniConvertor failed" information.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Please note: it is not possible to track multiple issues in one report: AFAIU this one ought to focus on the question whether Inkscape's EMF export needs to be backwards-compatible with an outdated version of Windows (Win98).

On 2014-02-25 19:59 +0100, Controller wrote:
> 1) With the emf problem, I wanted to try with the wmf format, but
> when saving I get an phyton.exe crash followed by "UniConvertor
> failed" information.

Probably the same issue as already tracked in
- Bug #656938 “WMF Export fails on Windows 7 (python.exe crashes)”
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/656938>

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

The WMF crash is now fixed (see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/656938>).

As for the issue with Windows 9x, I'm afraid we can't support very old operating systems (we already have difficulties updating dependencies for XP...). I'm really sorry for you if you're stuck with Windows 98.