From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image support for Carbon Emacs (Re: Consolidation of image support) Date: 20 Apr 2004 11:16:29 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040113.211033.74742347.mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082453006 29173 80.91.224.253 (20 Apr 2004 09:23:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 20 11:23:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BFrTK-00013L-00 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:23:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BFrTJ-0004um-00 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:23:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BFrOc-00030r-Nk for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:18:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BFrNo-0002bf-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BFrMx-0001Ya-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BFrMl-0001QZ-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BFrLg-0002VQ-6m; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:15:24 -0400 Original-To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21936 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21936 YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu writes: > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:10:33 +0900 (JST), YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu said: > > > Current status: > > - Unsupported image types: XPM and PostScript. > > Below is an XPM support patch for Carbon Emacs. It does not depend on > libXpm, but only supports XPM version 3 without extensions. Let me just pipe in to say that whoever thinks of putting in any work to make "PostScript" a supported image type in the same manner as it is in other platforms, should not bother. PostScript image support is close to unusable under X, anyway. preview-latex , while being inspired by the availability of PostScript support, had to abandon using it before the first release. It is far too feeble and inefficient to be of practical use for more than trivial tasks. I don't think it can be fixed reasonably, given its approach and implementation. And I doubt that there would be much of an application for it, anyhow. XPM is different, though: lots of icons are available in that format. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum