On May 26, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

using the inbuilt library is definely simpler!

Yes, but as you said earlier, you'll still have to do something about GIFs. It would be nice if luatex had at worst a non-fatal error on scanning a non-supported file.

Michael

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