Re: A few things to do for 1.1.6

[John Levon]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Baruch Even wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, John Levon wrote:
> 
> > Baruch, how does ImageMagick render EPS figures ? Does it really have its
> > own renderer, or does it call gs to do the job ?
> 
> I believe it uses ghostscript, but it uses it to convert to some bitmap
> format and then uses internal methods to convert it to the requested
> format.

Well isn't it a bit silly to use ImageMagick to use ghostscript  for the
common case of rendering EPS figures ?

You've said before that a new renderer based on gs only could be used in
the new graphics stuff. If I have time I'll add such a renderer once the
rest is stable in 1.2.0

thanks
john

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