Re: Image transformations

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm not quite sure I follow you...  If there are platforms without
>> > native image transforms, then we want to fall back on ImageMagick (if
>> > it's available), even on Emacs 27+.
>> 
>> (And anyway, if the user says :rotate 91, then we want to do
>> ImageMagick, because we don't have a native transform for that yet.)
>
> We do?  I thought we wanted to _avoid_ ImageMagick at all costs, more
> or less.

Not at all costs, surely?  We want to try to insert an image that does
what the user has specified, and that requires ImageMagick in some
cases.  (When Emacs has been built with that support, of course, which I
think anybody who uses Emacs to view images on platforms without native
image transforms will do.)

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