> I does, I just think that your desire is generally unattainable, even
> though in the specific case in point perhaps we should simply drop
> support for .art extensions.

I think there is a misunderstanding (probably due to my initial post and the
poor title).  The issue, I  believe, is with image-mode: when it is fed random
bytes (e.g. a text buffer) it goes berserk.  This is probably a bug in
image-mode.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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