The VCL simply wraps standard Windows functions for displaying metafiles. As the metafile is scaled, the font width and height are scaled as well. Many times, the Windows font mapper will simply substitute a different font that the font that was originally selected in an attempt to satisfy the request. This can also be een in many graphics programs if you arbitrarily scale the metafile in different directions. Note that some "hi end" graphic programs actually read the metafile record by record, bypassing the WIndows GDI entirely to overcome the effects of the Windows font mapper.