On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:06:24PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 24.09.2017 um 18:26 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>: > > Am 24.09.2017 um 18:12 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org>: > >> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:24:26PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > >>> > >>> This is the solution I’d like to propose. It’s not tested on Linux and > >>> Windows. > >>> > >>> The idea is to add imgconvert as fallback-converter for SVG to PDF and > >>> PNG to PDF. > >>> At the moment it uses the Qt library routines for image processing. I’ll > >>> plan to investigate how to integrate libcairo for real vector graphics > >>> conversion. > >>> > >>> I’d like to hear your comments. > >> > >> I think it is fine. However, I would avoid introducing 2 more converters > >> and instead I would modify convertDefault.py so that when imagemagick is > >> not installed the new imgconvert command is used. > >> > >> In this way, whatever conversion between image formats supported by Qt > >> would succeed (without the need of new converter definitions). > > > > This is a good idea too. I have to admit, I had scruple to do this. > > I’ll try to present a patch with this alternative. > > Here it is. > > I’ve improved imgconvert utility further and modified convertDefault.py > to call it if the version of convert couldn’t be detected. > > Stephan > > PS. Of course not tested on Linux and Windows (again).
It works for me on linux and cygwin. Of course, one has to move away convert, rsvg-convert, and inkscape to appreciate that. -- Enrico
