From: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>
To: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Reviczky Adam <reviczky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure and file size
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:45:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327106700.28887.1.camel@kip-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120121014245.794d515b@homerow>
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On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:42 +0100, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> No, not as dependency. As I mentioned before 99.9% of the
> system work fine without additional programs. You need
> inkscape only when you want to include SVG images. Having
> inkscape as a dependency means a huge bunch of data and
> disk space (inkscape incl. all dependencies like X,¿).
>
> However, these external helpers (like ghostscript as well)
> should be listed as a recommendation [not dependency]),
> that way the user is notified that he/she might get a
> benefit installing these programs.
>
> Marco
>
Understood. I've copied the package maintainer for a popular ConTeXt
Ubuntu PPA.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 0:25 Kip Warner
2012-01-19 7:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-19 23:51 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-19 8:23 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-19 23:52 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:51 ` Marco
2012-01-20 1:02 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 9:08 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-20 23:05 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:07 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-21 0:12 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-21 0:15 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-24 23:28 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:21 ` Marco
[not found] ` <20120121012234.1553b814@homerow>
2012-01-21 0:27 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 0:40 ` Marco
2012-01-21 0:55 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-21 13:32 ` Marco
2012-01-24 0:33 ` Kip Warner
[not found] ` <20120121014245.794d515b@homerow>
2012-01-21 0:45 ` Kip Warner [this message]
2012-01-21 0:54 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-21 3:31 ` Wagner Macedo
2012-01-21 9:40 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-24 0:44 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-24 0:17 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-24 11:13 ` Marco
[not found] ` <20120124121433.57a167f4@homerow>
2012-01-24 23:20 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-21 1:46 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-20 23:48 ` Wagner Macedo
2012-01-19 10:58 ` Peter Rolf
2012-01-20 0:01 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:07 ` Pontus Lurcock
2012-01-20 0:23 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:45 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-20 0:50 ` Pontus Lurcock
2012-01-20 1:26 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:13 ` Wagner Macedo
2012-01-20 0:23 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:43 ` Pontus Lurcock
[not found] ` <CAKGY2Pk_pXNNcks+EaEg0fLYh2ENtb3Cas13duoxihr654vQnQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-20 0:51 ` Kip Warner
[not found] ` <CAKGY2Pk8TC8cJUEDvy5HhaS0NvbLmFcYvS3d6Es7vzUpa63ADg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-20 1:01 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 1:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-20 1:30 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 8:55 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-20 23:04 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 23:36 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-20 0:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-20 1:24 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 0:21 ` Marco
2012-01-20 1:21 ` Kip Warner
2012-01-20 10:18 ` Marco
2012-01-20 10:26 ` Hans Hagen
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