On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 07:09:27AM +0100, José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Friday, 14 June 2019 06.59.16 WEST Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 04:41:44PM +0100, José Abílio Matos wrote: > > > Last week while working with python2/python3 differences I found clues > > > that > > > the legacy graphics conversion has problems. > > > > Which kind of problems? > > In terms of speed, the conversion is slow.
Do you have rsvg-convert installed? > > > Like I said in bugs #11457 and #11282: > > > "This also means that the legacy conversion has some issues but I think > > > that by now everyone should be using dvipng to that part of the code is > > > not used." > > > > > > So my question now is if we should, or not, make dvipng is a requirement > > > for the instant preview mode. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > I think we cannot remove the legacy conversion route because the dvipng > > route is only taken when the default output format for a document is > > "default". Otherwise, pdflatex or even xetex will be used for the snippets. > > That makes sense. I have now a way to test the different conversion routes and > I will try to identify the issues reported. You may also want to have a look at #9371 for why it is so. -- Enrico
