From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#963: no support for viewing bmp images? Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:17:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="54195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 963@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 20 18:18:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i06po-000DxH-9z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:18:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39462 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pn-00049w-0l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pf-00049o-AS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pe-0003No-4S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pe-0003Nf-1D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pd-0001Yy-RA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:18:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:18:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 963 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 963-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B963.15663178655987 (code B ref 963); Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 963) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Aug 2019 16:17:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33739 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pN-0001YT-2V for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pg1-f194.google.com ([209.85.215.194]:34460) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i06pK-0001YC-IV for 963@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pg1-f194.google.com with SMTP id n9so3524555pgc.1 for <963@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:17:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=V9UAAd2M78yQIHbQTAATipUNk+l8mNZvMoXwLiKFawM=; b=RBmukXDQ+f4HW0PBtesxVBQWUffvnxk8IkTv7LtbP3+/SAidhdTmt5L7OPzTNmRmQR urU6f15N5wuRAEc7uNHYYROGp0/YJWBCHxJHnehQNwhJJpx/Ifupfb9kReckbAVfHiNU c6mbfjzgow7VmOuf2nugdElsO1pNhjPoSDlVGsjaZXTa9FZXT5k6bko8rvLkV/TM+k39 1Zhv01S1c2++rD5jlwsl3NyVdV4XA0LBh3JhBvdFUKXmUfU8rgxod4DgeJkp5qfvM8Uz WoS2mlq98OxlRzaHkVh8CpWplHjleOSHcw5EsFVYt6oHGNEcqUbnS9/9o0v9onnTFpoR D2Ng== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWISjSKc62HiV7uHJvJ8UDDF582FaVg+akkfDvq+zqkQ6X5IXHy 6GaSv29EBH+X3Fi8g5jrGecPROK9fbaebaRZiN4= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqw2F4WoqYQatJYh3DwxwZnkikjtUeK2WWgWjSEX5I4BDNlzk8G9j1ITsqIrvYenBAtvnGLHbrIKDD26DCbdhO0= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:17ab:: with SMTP id q40mr811124pja.106.1566317856550; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:17:36 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165425 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Emacs 24.1 will be able to view bmp files through the ImageMagick > library. However, it looks like this is not implemented for the Nextstep > port (from examining configure), nor for MS Windows (?), ref thread > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-09/msg01579.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg00002.html > > The documentation doesn't seem to make this explicit, it probably > should. This is from 2011 and should probably have been closed, since we had bmp support in Emacs 24.1. But since it wasn't, here's the current state of affairs AFAICT: 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. Thanks, Stefan Kangas