Re: Start working on ORA bitmap support

[Eric Wasylishen]

It looks like it has an API for getting the list of installed image format 
modules, as well as checking if it can read a file based on the first few 
bytes, which is nice.
Is this magick image rep something you were thinking of implementing? I'll do 
it if you don't feel like it :-)

Eric

On 2011-06-27, at 2:10 PM, Bluna Ratimonkey wrote:

> Yes, pretty handy to get jobs done. I got the idea several years ago
> from the E(nlightenment) image library's fallbacking mechanism when
> some libraries gone missing. One drawback is that you will need to
> verify that imagemagick was installed with necessary modules.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Eric Wasylishen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hey Bluna,
>> 
>> I forgot about the possibility of writing an ImageMagick NSImageRep - IMHO 
>> this is a great idea. We could then remove the Ghostscript image rep I just 
>> added since ImageMagick handles that (and dozens of other formats!)
>> 
>> -Eric
>> 
>> 
>> On 2011-06-27, at 11:45 AM, Bluna Ratimonkey wrote:
>> 
>>> I was going to get into Mobile Suit Gundam joke but then I think it's
>>> kinda better to just spend more time with WebKit if someone already
>>> have to do it, it could be worth waiting. ie. although it's very
>>> important, I don't think the ecosystem will need SVG support anytime
>>> soon. But I tend to think that there are more other important stuffs
>>> that still block other path of developments, so imo using image magick
>>> to convert via librsvg should be enough for now.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Am 26.06.2011 um 23:32 schrieb Fred Kiefer:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 26.06.2011 15:52, Bluna Ratimonkey wrote:
>>>>>> Another (and may be most) important bit is that you can mix svg and
>>>>>> raster in one file.. ie. you can choose svg on larger size and raster
>>>>>> for "hinting" smaller icons.. At this point I think I'll just use
>>>>>> image magick for fallbacking and also for converting svg into raster
>>>>>> data.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which just reminds me that we should think about SVG support in GNUstep.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This is something we would gain with a port of WebKit to GNUstep. If that 
>>>> is reasonable …
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> cheers,
>>>> 
>>>>       Lars
>>>> 
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