Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default

[Alan Third]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 02:30:34PM +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Is it worth reconsidering whether Emacs should link to ImageMagick by
> > default? The pros are support for more formats and rescaling, the cons
> > are crashes.
> 
> Without image scaling, modes that display images become pretty
> worthless.
> 
> I think the long term solution here is to implement image scaling in
> Emacs (probably not very hard) and then drop ImageMagick-by-default
> after that's been done.

This may be naive, but is it possible to leave scaling to the GUI
toolkit? I know that when we draw images into the frame in NS we can
specify different sized rectangles for source and destination and the
toolkit handles the scaling for us. I think w32 is the same and
presumably X provides something similar.

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Alan Third