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Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default |
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Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:27:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Without image scaling, modes that display images become pretty
>> worthless.
>
> I think that is an issue that will vary from person to person.
I think the modes that display images are pretty much unusable for
anybody that uses them if you don't have image scaling. :-)
But if you don't use them, you won't care.
> Do you have an opinion of GraphicsMagick?
> It claims to be more stable and secure than ImageMagick.
> I guess that someone who knows the Emacs ImageMagick code could port it
> to GraphicsMagick fairly easily. (I don't, and didn't, bug#14358).
No, sorry, I don't know.
ImageMagick stability seems to have gotten a bit better the last few
years (in my experience). I haven't had an ImageMagick-related segfault
in months now, and back in, say, 2014, it was a weekly occurrence.
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- Linking to ImageMagick by default, Glenn Morris, 2018/12/01
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Paul Eggert, 2018/12/02
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/12/05
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Alan Third, 2018/12/05
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Alan Third, 2018/12/08
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Paul Eggert, 2018/12/08
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Alan Third, 2018/12/10
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Alan Third, 2018/12/19
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/19
- Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default, Joseph Garvin, 2018/12/19