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From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \externalfigure and file size
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:40:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120121014013.72179e94@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327105621.28887.0.camel@kip-laptop>

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?

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 or suggestion [not as
dependency]).  In  that case  the  user  is notified  that
he/she might get a benefit installing these programs.

Marco


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-21  0:40 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
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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