On 21-1-2012 01:27, Kip Warner 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, because not all users use svg (just an not all users use fonts defined in type-* files) and also because inkscape is close to impossible to install without x present which would render context 'unuseable due to a depency not being resolved'

(in fact there is then also a dependency on a viewer)

Hans



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