1 * README for the ImageMagick Emacs branch
3 This is the imagemagick branch of Emacs. Imagemagick can now be used
4 to load many new image formats, and also do useful transforms like
7 This file will attempt to contain draft NEWS, Changelog and manual
8 entries for the new functionality.
10 You might need to regenerate the configure scripts:
15 ./configure --with-imagemagick
18 * TODO image-type-header-regexps priorities the jpeg loader over the
19 imagemagick one. This is not wrong, but how should a user go about
20 prefering the imagemagick loader? The user might like zooming etc in
23 try (setq image-type-header-regexps nil) for a quick hack to prefer
24 imagemagick over the jpg loader.
26 * TODO For some reason its unbearably slow to look at a page in a large
27 image bundle using the :index feature. The imagemagick "display"
28 command is also a bit slow, but nowhere near as slow as the emacs
29 code. It seems imagemagick tries to unpack every page when loading
30 the bundle. This feature is not the primary usecase for the
31 imagemagick patch though.
33 ImageMagick 6.6.2-9 introduced a bugfix for single page djvu load.
34 It is now way faster to use the :index feature, but its still not
37 ** DONE optimize number of pages calculation for bundles as suggested by
38 imagemagick forum: "set the density to something low like 2 and use
41 ** TODO try to cache the num pages calculation. it can take a while to
42 calculate the number of pages, and if you need to do it for each
43 page view, page-flipping becomes uselessly slow.
45 * TODO integrate with image-dired
47 * TODO integrate with docview.
49 * TODO integrate with image-mode
50 Some work has been done, M-x image-transform-fit-to-height will fit
51 the image to the height of the Emacs window for instance.
53 * TODO look for optimizations for handling images with low depth
54 Currently the code seems to default to 24 bit RGB which is costly for
55 images with lower bit depth.
57 * TODO complete documentation drafts below
59 * DONE fix inconsistencys with spelling of imagemagick in the src
60 * DONE report number of images in image bundle types somehow
61 Works like for "gif" support. Thanks to Juri Linkov.
62 * DONE probably add pdf to inhibited types
63 * DONE inhibit types is defconst should probably be defcustom
64 * TODO decide what to do with some uncommitted imagemagick support
65 functions for image size etc.
66 * TODO Test with more systems
67 Tested on Fedora 12, Fedora 14 so far, and the libmagick that ships with it.
68 Ubuntu 8.04 was also tested, but it seems it ships a broken
71 I also tried using an imagemagick compiled from their SVN, in
72 parallell with the one packaged by Fedora, it worked well.
74 * DONE Also need some way to handle render methods that only work on newer ImageMagicks
75 Is handled by configure now
77 * Some nits from Stefan Monnier
78 I just took a quick look at the code and I see the following nits to fix:
80 ** DONE obviously a merge will have to come with a good ChangeLog.
81 ** DONE also the merge will need to come with documentation. Maybe not in the
82 Texinfo form yet, but at least in the etc/NEWS with enough info that
83 describes the `scale' and other such arguments that someone can start
85 ** DONE the README talks about naming inconsistencies, I think these should be
86 fixed before a first commit (should be straightforward).
88 ** DONE the "let" in image.el should not be followed by a line break and the while
89 should be replaced by a dolist.
91 ** DONE the prototype of imagemagick_load_image has some odd indentation in ([[2010.06.14]])
92 its args, not sure what happened.
93 ** DONE a few lines in the C code break the 80columns limit.
94 ** DONE please use ANSI style function declarations rather than K&R for new code. ([[2010.06.14]])
95 ** DONE you can get rid of the prototypes by reordering the code. ([[2010.06.14]])
96 ** DONE the docstrings in DEFUN should not be indented (they'll display ([[2010.06.14]])
97 weirdly otherwise in C-h f).
98 ** DONE Some "{" are at the end of a for/if rather than on their own line. ([[2010.06.14]])
99 ** DONE why use "*( imtypes + i)" rather than "imtypes[i]"? ([[2010.06.14]])
100 ** DONE some "," lack a space after them. ([[2010.06.14]])
101 ** DONE several "=" and "==" lack spaces around them. ([[2010.06.14]])
105 ** ImageMagick support
106 It is now possible to use the Imagemagick library to load many new
107 image formats in Emacs.
109 To enable, use the following configure option:
112 The new function (imagemagick-types) returns a list of image file
113 extensions that your installation of imagemagick supports.
115 The function (imagemagick-register-types) will enable the imagemagick
116 support for the extensions in imagemagick-types minus the types listed
117 in imagemagick-types-inhibit.
119 imagemagick-types-inhibit has the value '(C HTML HTM TXT PDF) by default.
120 This means imagemagick will be used also to load jpeg files, if you
121 have both jpeg and imagemagick libraries linked. Add 'JPG to
122 imagemagick-types-inhibit if you do not want this.
124 imagemagick-render-type is a new variable which can be set to choose
125 between screen render methods.
127 - 0 is a conservative metod which works with older ImageMagick
128 versions. It is a bit slow, but robust.
130 - 1 utilizes a newer ImageMagick method
133 Images loaded with imagemagick will support a couple of new display
134 specification behaviours:
136 - if the :width and :height keywords are specified, these values are
137 used for scaling the image. If only one of :width or :height is
138 specified, the other one will be calculated so as to preserve the
139 aspect ratio.If both :width and :height are specified, aspect ratio
140 will not be preserved.
142 - :rotation specifies a rotation angle in degrees.
144 - :index specifies which image inside an image bundle file format, such
145 as TIFF or DJVM, to view.
147 The image-metadata function can be used to retrieve the total number
148 of images in an image bundle. This is simmilar to how GIF files work.
151 nothing yet, but the NEWS entry could be adapted.