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[Ingolf Schäfer <address@hidden>]

Am 29.07.2006 um 09:14 schrieb Jani Huhtanen:

> On Saturday 29 July 2006 00:24, you wrote:
> > Am 28.07.2006 um 22:52 schrieb Jani Huhtanen:
> > > On Friday 28 July 2006 23:04, you wrote:
> > > > Jani Huhtanen schrieb:
> > > > > On Friday 28 July 2006 17:31, Ingolf Schaefer wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jani Huhtanen schrieb:
> > > > > > > On Thursday 27 July 2006 21:34, David G. Wonnacott wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Imlib provides the jpeg reading support for TeXmacs, I believe.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Nope. TeXmacs has no support for reading jpeg directly, if I
> > > > > > understand
> > > > > > the source code correctly. Instead of dealing with jpeg it uses
> > > > > > imagemagick to do the magic ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > I stand corrected. I wonder what the imlib is used for then. Only
> > > > > references to it was in obtaining image size and drawing to  
> > > > > drawable
> > > > > (IIRC).
> > > >
> > > > I am sorry, because I simplified too much. TeXmacs either uses
> > > > imlib2 or
> > > > convert, so it is by no means necessary to have imlib installed.
> > > > Are you
> > > > 100% sure that convert is installed, supports jpeg and is in the
> > > > PATH?
> > > > (I do not mean to be insulting, I am just astonished.)
> > > >
> > > > For example can you convert a jepg to ps from command line?
> > > >
> > > > > convert sample.jpg sample.ps
> > > >
> > > > If this does work, I do not know anything else. TeXmacs just  
> > > > does the
> > > > very same command line that you just tried.
> > >
> > > Yes, it works fine.
> >
> > It might be related to the guile version. But this is just a guess
> > without reason. You are using guile 1.4 which seems to be a bit  
> > too old.
>
> You're referring to the original poster I guess? My guile is  
> version 1.6.8.
Yes, version 1.6.8 is perfect.
> > But nevertheless. Can you try the static build from Joris, which is
> > available on texmacs.org?
>
> I tried 1.0.6.4-R2-static on Linux. Results were the same.
> I did 'Insert->Image->Link Image' and the visible filetypes were:  
> pdf, ps,
> eps, svg, tif, and fig.
Then it is very likely a problem of your system and not related to  
the configuration options.

Probably Joris might know something more.

Sorry,

Ingolf
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