Support transparency for ImageMagick images.
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1 ;;; compface.el --- functions for converting X-Face headers
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
6 ;; Keywords: news
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23 ;;; Commentary:
25 ;;; Code:
27 ;;;###
28 (defun uncompface (face)
29 "Convert FACE to pbm.
30 Requires the external programs `uncompface', and `icontopbm'. On a
31 GNU/Linux system these might be in packages with names like `compface'
32 or `faces-xface' and `netpbm' or `libgr-progs', for instance."
33 (with-temp-buffer
34 (unless (featurep 'xemacs) (set-buffer-multibyte nil))
35 (insert face)
36 (let ((coding-system-for-read 'raw-text)
37 ;; At least "icontopbm" doesn't work with Windows because
38 ;; the line-break code is converted into CRLF by default.
39 (coding-system-for-write 'binary))
40 (and (eq 0 (apply 'call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
41 "uncompface"
42 'delete '(t nil) nil))
43 (progn
44 (goto-char (point-min))
45 (insert "/* Format_version=1, Width=48, Height=48, Depth=1,\
46 Valid_bits_per_item=16 */\n")
47 ;; I just can't get "icontopbm" to work correctly on its
48 ;; own in XEmacs. And Emacs doesn't understand un-raw pbm
49 ;; files.
50 (if (not (featurep 'xemacs))
51 (eq 0 (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
52 "icontopbm"
53 'delete '(t nil)))
54 (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max)
55 "icontopbm | pnmnoraw"
56 (current-buffer) t)
57 t))
58 (buffer-string)))))
60 (provide 'compface)
62 ;;; compface.el ends here