Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| 
| > I am not sure... Is it correct to handle an unknown format as åppm?
| 
| Note that "ppm" is only used in GraphicsCacheItem.C in the latest patch.
| This means that we'll convert all unknown formats to "ppm" for the onscreen
| preview. Note also that ppm is already the default for formats that are
| known but have no explicit conversion path to any of the possible preview
| formats.
| 
| > shouldn't we rather fail-out and just say that we have no idea what to
| > do with it?
| 
| If we fail out we force users to add every format that we don't yet support
| 
| a) to the preferences file and
| b) to getFormatFromContents().
| 
| The ability to use image formats that LyX does not know is really useful
| IMHO (of course this is only possible if our default converter can handle
| them, but imagemagick knows a lot of formats)

Ok, sounds good.

-- 
        Lgb

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