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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