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

On 21-1-2012 01:12, luigi scarso wrote:

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 21-1-2012 00:05, Kip Warner wrote:

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On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 10:08 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:

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There is no such depedency .. actually, i found it rather impossible to get an inkscape running on a headless linux box as there is some depedency on X (last time I tried). In a similar fashion there is no dependency on GhostScript or GraphicMagick or Zint.

So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure? Does it always use inkscape, or only sometimes?

no, png, jpg and pdf are supported directly (as is mp) but fo rother formats it will either try to find a replacement (there is a whole chain of lookups) or it will try to run one of the configured converters ... with

and swf, even if I have not full tested (basically you can test only with acroreader 10)

sure, a few of those 'supported media types' are also dealt with (in fact I think that one can embed svg in a pdf document given some plugin Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------