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Hi, On Sun, 27 May 2012, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Hi,
Inclusion of gif images from the web does not work. For example:
\starttext \externalfigure[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Sunflower_as_gif_websafe....] \stoptext
It is a rather strange bug. In grph-inc.lua we have
local newbase = file.addsuffix(newbase,newformat) local newname = file.join(newpath,newbase)
Now, since the webaddress has a dot, newbase has a dot. file.addsuffix does not change the suffix if a file already has a suffix (and does not give any warning about it!). So, newname does not end with .pdf, and therefore
gm convert long-path.gif long-path
does not convert to pdf--the resultant file is a gif file. Hence, direct inclusion of that file fails.
A simple fix is to change the addsuffix line to:
newbase = newbase .. "." .. newformat
This issue is fixed in the latest beta. Thanks, Aditya