On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner <k...@thevertigo.com> wrote:
> 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?
As I mentioned before 99.9% of the system work fine
without additional programs. You need inkscape only when
you want to include SVG images. Having inkscape as a
dependency means a huge bunch of data and disk space
(inkscape incl. all dependencies like X,…).
However, these external helpers (like ghostscript as well)
should be listed as a recommendation or suggestion [not as
dependency]). In that case the user is notified that
he/she might get a benefit installing these programs.
Marco
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