From 86fa4cb5094901384f680e2ba4d6424e53fa820c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joakim Verona Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:32:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] initial imagemagick readme --- README.imagemagick | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.imagemagick diff --git a/README.imagemagick b/README.imagemagick new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3c760dd75ea --- /dev/null +++ b/README.imagemagick @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +This is the imagemagick branch of Emacs. Imagemagick can now be used +to load many new image formats, and also do useful transforms like +scaling and rotation. + +This file will attempt to contain draft NEWS, Changelog and manual +entries for the new functionality. + +TODO +- complete documentation drafts below +- test with more systems, only tested on Fedora 12 so far, and the +libmagick that ships it. +- fix inconsistencys with spelling of imagemagick in the src +- report number of images in image bundle types somehow +- probably add pdf to inhibited types +- inhibit types is defconst should probably be defcustom +- decide what to do with some uncommitted imagemagick support + functions for image size etc. + + +* NEWS entry +** ImageMagick support +It is now possible to use the Imagemagick library to load many new +image formats in Emacs. + +To enable, use the following configure option: +--with-imagemagick + +The new function (imagemagick-types) returns a list of image file +extensions that your installation of imagemagick supports. + +The function (imagemagic-register-types) will enable the imagemagick +support for the extensions in imagemagick-types minus the types listed +in imagemagick-types-inhibit. + +imagemagick-types-inhibit has the value '(C HTML HTM TXT) by default. +This means imagemagick will be used also to load jpeg files, if you +have both jpeg and imagemagick libraries linked. Add 'JPG to +imagemagick-types-inhibit if you do not want this. + +Images loaded with imagemagick will support a couple of new display +specifications: + +- scale +- rotation +- index + +* Changelog entry +nothing yet + +* Manual entry +nothing yet \ No newline at end of file -- 2.11.4.GIT