On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

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>          Martin and I had a LONG chat last night on IRC about the 
> advantages and disadvantages of using ImageMagick in Abiword and I THINK I 
> sold him on the idea of doing a "miniMagick" (ala what we already carry 
> with wv) which just includes the pieces we need and doesn't balloon up the 
> app size (or CVS) too much.

I'd be happy to see this miniMagick be introduced to give
a common interface for all of our image import stuff.  Not
to mention the fact that it might allows us to scale the 
images in place for insertion into documents.

>From there I would then say that we only support the 
png, jpeg (and bmp grudgingly) image types as built in
and allow the user to place additional libs/modules
as they please.

Does this sound feasible?  Is it doable from your point
of view Leonard?

Thomas
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