On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:
> 
> > So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure?
> > Does it always use inkscape, or only sometimes?
> 
> If the  image type is  supported by the TeX  engine (jpeg,
> png, pdf, mps) it is directly included. SVG files inkscape
> is  called to  convert  the  SVG to  PDF.  For EPS  images
> ghostscript is used:
> 
> strace results:
> 
> execve("/usr/bin/gs", ["gs", "-q", "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
> 	"-dNOPAUSE", "-dNOCACHE", "-dBATCH",
> 	"-dAutoRotatePages=/None", "-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress",
> 	"-dEPSCrop", "-sOutputFile=m_k_i_v_graph.pdf",
> 	"graph.eps", "-c", "quit"], [/* 55 vars */]) 

Right, but since the average end user probably won't know that, doesn't
that still suggest Inkscape be listed as a dependency?

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