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bug#963: no support for viewing bmp images?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#963: no support for viewing bmp images? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:11:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> When I compile the current master branch using --with-imagemagick,
> viewing bmp images works for me. But imagemagick is now disabled by
> default (and rightly so). Without imagemagick compiled in I just get
> garbled text when opening a bmp file.
>
> Using Emacs 26.1 from Debian I can view BMP images just fine, as
> expected, since it comes with imagemagick support.
>
> It seems to me that Emacs is missing BMP support if built without
> imagemagick. It would be nice to not depend on that library for this
> use case.
Are BMP images used much, though? I can't remember the last time I saw
one in the wild.
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