On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 21-1-2012 00:05, Kip Warner wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 10:08 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> There is no such depedency .. actually, i found it rather impossible to
>>> get an inkscape running on a headless linux box as there is some
>>> depedency on X (last time I tried). In a similar fashion there is no
>>> dependency on GhostScript or GraphicMagick or Zint.
>>>
>>
>> So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure? Does it
>> always use inkscape, or only sometimes?
>>
>
> no, png, jpg and pdf are supported directly (as is mp) but fo rother
> formats it will either try to find a replacement (there is a whole chain of
> lookups) or it will try to run one of the configured converters ... with
>
and swf, even if I have not full tested (basically you can test only with
acroreader 10)

-- 
luigi