On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:42 +0100, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner <k...@thevertigo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote:
> > > On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner <k...@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, not as dependency. As I mentioned before 99.9% of the
> system work fine without additional programs. You need
> inkscape only when you want to include SVG images. Having
> inkscape as a dependency means a huge bunch of data and
> disk space (inkscape incl. all dependencies like X,¿).
>
> However, these external helpers (like ghostscript as well)
> should be listed as a recommendation [not dependency]),
> that way the user is notified that he/she might get a
> benefit installing these programs.
>
> Marco
> Understood. I've copied the package maintainer for a popular ConTeXt Ubuntu PPA. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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