Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John Levon wrote:
|
| > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Baruch Even wrote:
| >
| > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John Levon wrote:
| > >
| > > > Baruch, how does ImageMagick render EPS figures ? Does it really have its
| > > > own renderer, or does it call gs to do the job ?
| > >
| > > I believe it uses ghostscript, but it uses it to convert to some bitmap
| > > format and then uses internal methods to convert it to the requested
| > > format.
| >
| > Well isn't it a bit silly to use ImageMagick to use ghostscript for the
| > common case of rendering EPS figures ?
|
| The thing is that I was requested by Lars to avoid the gs rendering way
| (at least for the initial version) due to the many problems that it
| creates.
That was: "avoid gs to render _os_ screen". If you want to use gs to
create one of the formats the gui lib uses, be my guest.
XForms understands several
Qt understands even more
and I bet Gnome supports a heap too.
| The trouble that exists, is that ghostscript can be used either to create
| jpeg (or gif) or it can load to X11 pixmap, but Xforms doesn't load jpegs
| and gifs (at least not in the 0.88 version), so it left me with only the
| loading directly to pixmaps, which is as you know problematic.
Please don't design for 0.88, but for 0.89 and other libs that
understand several formats.
Lgb
