EMF and EMZ are Windows Compressed Enhanced Metafile graphics formats developed by Microsoft. These formats may contain both vector and raster images, but they are primarily used for vector images.
EMF is Enhanced Windows Metafile Format - it contains Windows MetaFile binary data.
EMZ is a Windows Compressed Enhanced Metafile format - it also contains Windows MetaFile binary data but compressed with GZIP.
EMF files can be opened with Microsoft Paint, Adobe Illustrator, InkScape.
EMZ files can be opened with the same applications but should be unpacked before open.
These file formats are part of a series of Windows Metafile formats:
Windows Metafile Enhanced formats:
EMF - Windows Metafile Enhanced Format
EMZ - Windows Metafile Enhanced Compressed (GZipped) Format
In case you need to view an EMF(EMZ) file in a browser or a standard image or PDF viewer application, you can convert it to HTML, JPEG, PNG PDF format with GroupDocs.Viewer for Java.
How to convert EMZ files
Convert EMZ to HTML
To convert EMZ files to HTML with GroupDocs.Viewer for Java use following code: