From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>, Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure and file size
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:54:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1A0CB7.9080007@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327105621.28887.0.camel@kip-laptop>
On 21-1-2012 01:27, Kip Warner 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, because not all users use svg (just an not all users use fonts
defined in type-* files) and also because inkscape is close to
impossible to install without x present which would render context
'unuseable due to a depency not being resolved'
(in fact there is then also a dependency on a viewer)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-21 0:54 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
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 [this message]
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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