Re: Image formats support

[Andreas Politz]

Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:

> Maybe a stupid question but if emacs is compiled with ImageMagick support, 
> what is the point in asking JPEG, PNG, etc support at the same time from 
> independent libraries ?
> Shouldn't configure made those options to be exclusive ?

Imagemagick is handled like an image type, so png and imagemagick are
two different types.  One uses libpng as backend and the other
libmagick.

> Also what is (are) the drawback(s) of ImageMagick support vs the other 
> libraries ?

In my experience, libpng is faster then imagemagick.

-ap