Re: how to get images support in Emacs on Windows?

[Ben <yfefyf@gmail.com>]

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I haven't tried other types except jpeg and png.

Actually, I use few inline images. Most of my images are large. They should
be resized to look pretty on emacs. But to resize them I need to build
emacs with ImageMagick. And I haven't tried that yet.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Herbert Sitz <hesitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben <yfefyf <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > You can download the corresponding dlls from ezwinports [fn:1] and
> put them into emacs's `bin` directory.
> >
> > There are some instructions in the "Image support" part on page [fn:2].
> >
> > [fn:2] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
> >
>
> Strangely, the instructions and files work only for a couple formats I
> tried.
>
> jpeg,png -- work perfectly
>
> svg -- works, but so far not inline.  I.e., I can click on link and image
> will show up in another Emacs buffer, but can't get it to show up inline.
>
> tiff -- can't get this to work at all.  When clicking on it, it shows
> character-mode garbage in separate buffer, along with error message.  This
> is despite fact that dynamic-library-alist shows the same files as I copied
> to the bin folder.
>
> Not a huge deal for me, since jpeg and png are what I wanted most.  But
> still seems a little odd; I have no idea what problems are with svg and
> tiff.
>

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