Re: DJVU files and ImageMagick

[joakim@verona.se]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:12:12 +0100
>> 
>> Should the following change be made?
>> 
>> diff --git a/lisp/image.el b/lisp/image.el
>> index 3aa3b0aa24..ba75bdf034 100644
>> --- a/lisp/image.el
>> +++ b/lisp/image.el
>> @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ imagemagick-register-types
>>        (setq imagemagick--file-regexp re))))
>>  
>>  (defcustom imagemagick-types-inhibit
>> -  '(C HTML HTM INFO M TXT PDF)
>> +  '(C HTML HTM INFO M TXT PDF DJVU)
>>    "List of ImageMagick types that should never be treated as images.
>>  This should be a list of symbols, each of which should be one of
>>  the ImageMagick types listed by `imagemagick-types'.  The listed
>
> I think ImageMagick is a troubled package, so replacing it with better
> alternatives is generally a Good Thing.  Therefore, I agree with this
> change, and would encourage others to speak up their views on this.

I also agree.

Longer version:

I use Imagemagick in Emacs to view single djvu files, not the djvu
bundles. I can still do this if I customize the inhibit list.

Even if the Imagemagick support went away altogether, I could mostly use
an image converter to do the same thing.


>
> Thanks.
>
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Joakim Verona
joakim@verona.se