Hi Stuart, *, On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:45 PM, V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu> wrote: > Looking at issue fdo#62051 > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62051> , why no versions of > LibreOffice seem to handle insertion of EPS. > > Looking in OpenGrok at ieps.cxx > <http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/filter/source/graphicfilter/ieps/ieps.cxx> > Linux seems to use the GhostScript -- gs command that is commonly bundled. > But Windows seems to require use of ImageMgaick convert command. That is > not normally a program a Windows user would install!
Nope. ps2edit, convert and ghostscript are tried in that order on all platforms. The first one that is available will be used. > So, I installed an ImageMagick binary (32-bit static > ImageMagick-6.8.9-0-Q16-x86-static.exe) from > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php and all versions of > LibreOffice through 4.1.x now render a viable image of the EPS. That might just as well be because ghostscript has trouble with the border/placement of the image in the preview - that is why the two other variants are tried first. Those do a better job with that. > Can find nothing noting a requirement for ImageMagick as a install > dependency, should ImageMagick be bundled if EPS rendering is depending on > it? No. As all of the above is only used to create a preview image of the EPS file if there is none embedded in the EPS file already. EPS is a niche format that most of the users won't encounter. So no need to confuse those by listing those helper programs as a "installation requirement" ciao Christian _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
