On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner <k...@thevertigo.com> 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 */]) Right, but since the average end user probably won't know that, doesn't that still suggest Inkscape be listed as a dependency? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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