On 11/27/2015 12:52 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> commit 2bd2aa27811ab08d832f37354e3d2a6f0cbfda8c >> Author: Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@lyx.org> >> Date: Fri Nov 27 00:39:38 2015 +0100 >> >> installer: install Qt plugin DLLs correctly >> >> - also remove support metafile2eps because: >> - it is outdated >> - unnecessary third-party program since ImageMagick can do this too >> - needs unnecessarily installation time > Removal of utilities that where created by others who invested a lot of time > should be discussed on the list first. I use metafile2eps even on linux > (instructions are somewhere in the wiki),
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/MetafileToEPSConverter > because it does a pure vector > conversion, while ImageMagick converts to bitmap, so the quality of the > result is lower. IMO, the removal should be reverted. Certainly if metafile2eps does vector conversion whereas ImageMagick does bitmap conversion, the former is not redundant. Richard
