From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 963@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#963: no support for viewing bmp images?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:11:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muerj5c1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=XvoMqbXg16w23cqU-giHqHfCzF8cfyt2R=euP91BnTw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:17:25 +0200")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> When I compile the current master branch using --with-imagemagick,
> viewing bmp images works for me. But imagemagick is now disabled by
> default (and rightly so). Without imagemagick compiled in I just get
> garbled text when opening a bmp file.
>
> Using Emacs 26.1 from Debian I can view BMP images just fine, as
> expected, since it comes with imagemagick support.
>
> It seems to me that Emacs is missing BMP support if built without
> imagemagick. It would be nice to not depend on that library for this
> use case.
Are BMP images used much, though? I can't remember the last time I saw
one in the wild.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-11 22:02 bug#963: no support for viewing bmp images? xah lee
2011-07-19 20:46 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-20 16:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-26 18:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-09-27 10:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-27 13:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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