View EMF files in your browser
Windows' own vector picture format, found in Office files, clip art and charts. Browsers can't show it, and Filepeek draws it right here. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens at actual size, or shrunk to fit your screen.
- Actual size, or shrunk to fit
- Drag to pan • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Fullscreen
- Export • Save as PNG or JPEG
About EMF
Microsoft made the Enhanced Metafile for Windows NT in 1993, to follow the older WMF. An EMF records a picture as the drawing calls Windows made: lines, curves, shapes, text and bitmaps, in units of their own, so it prints sharp at any size.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio use EMF for pasted charts and drawings, clip art comes in it, and Windows apps copy pictures as EMF. EMZ is an EMF compressed with gzip. Outside Windows, few apps show them.
Filepeek reads the metafile itself, draws it on white, and shows the picture like any image: zoom in, look at its details and save it as PNG or JPEG.
Enhanced Metafile
.emf • .emz
Format
- MIME type
- image/emf
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Released
- 1993
Inside the file
- Drawing
- Lines, curves, shapes, text and bitmaps
- Frame
- Its size, in hundredths of a millimeter
- Compression
- None, or gzip as EMZ
Opens in every browser
Browsers can't show EMF files, and download them instead. Filepeek draws them in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Questions
How do I open an EMF file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an EMF. It's drawn at once in your browser, on any device.
Can I turn an EMF into a PNG?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PNG or Save as JPEG.
What's an EMZ file?
An EMF compressed with gzip, as Office keeps some pictures. Filepeek opens it the same way.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The file opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.