Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

21 Jan 2012


      On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner  wrote:
...
So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure?
Does it always use inkscape, or only sometimes?
If the  image type is  supported by the TeX  engine (jpeg,
png, pdf, mps) it is directly included. SVG files inkscape
is  called to  convert  the  SVG to  PDF.  For EPS  images
ghostscript is used:

strace results:

execve("/usr/bin/gs", ["gs", "-q", "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
	"-dNOPAUSE", "-dNOCACHE", "-dBATCH",
	"-dAutoRotatePages=/None", "-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress",
	"-dEPSCrop", "-sOutputFile=m_k_i_v_graph.pdf",
	"graph.eps", "-c", "quit"], [/* 55 vars */]) 

Marco