From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vitalie Spinu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: imagemagic in image-mode and image-dired-thumbnail-mode? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:51:23 +0200 Organization: EUR Message-ID: <87ppuhxk04.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a9lp8uxk.fsf@gmail.com> <87ppuk6qqb.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc49y793.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374076297 12904 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 15:51:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 17:51:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UzU0v-0002Uj-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:51:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzU0u-0008P2-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzU0p-0008Kb-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:51:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzU0k-0000Ve-UT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::22c]:60422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzU0k-0000VN-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id c13so1157163eek.3 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:51:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=JEzBzJK6mks4WmOXaD1XLfcM2sL5PtXVpWyr+cvlYM4=; b=uPkCYdrVHD/3Yv5EYhHXgF6iot66bFZi73JDPVmG8pZxW9oN39KpxdzYvQYqF9gjrc QDWKrdtotHYd0qeBJ+emrxMv8q6qaIYszh3TyVrWBx1+FzRr9fyKHOXmdFMZzly9yAFo M2b+fhgq8x7AxyxDZMX6AITXxMlxXZq+OlKVZtvU/GA4gNNZHY5nrMxuZGHPcmjjnFSN PmBj3xCzF8R3JOM+ekKtsZtC/wQdyjioI9IciCAkBId4qtGkgpJ7+Y9770myvbQgKRqI PtAOMUe1rWIi0JNtyKGlc99aZE2e9jAXOvDMDLm2cCzWer6eZzVAovzKlduAUBOz8pYG UhBQ== X-Received: by 10.15.63.8 with SMTP id l8mr7076325eex.23.1374076285636; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (dhcp-077-249-018-128.chello.nl. [77.249.18.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e44sm11746640eeh.11.2013.07.17.08.51.24 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:51:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vc49y793.fsf@gmail.com> (Vitalie Spinu's message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:29:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c00::22c X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161978 Archived-At: >> Vitalie Spinu >> on Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:29:12 +0200 wrote: [...] > To avoid this, I have create-image-prefer-type which can take > 'imagemagick or nil. In the future it can be extended to other > back-ends, if any. This variable takes effect only when create-image is > called with no explicit TYPE argument. Is this a right approach? I got a better idea after seeing convert specs: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php Just try which backend fits the requested conversion in turn: (defcustom image-transform-backends '(imagemagick convert) "Backends to try out in turn for image transformation. For `imagemagick', `image-transform' will try to use internal Emacs ImageMagick support. For `convert' use external ImageMagick \"convert\" utility to produce a transformed temporary image file. If Emacs was not compiled with ImageMagick support `imagemagic' backend is ignored." :group 'image :type '(repeat symbol))