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reliance on ImageMagick for building

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Dan Kelley
2004-06-05
2004-07-13
  • Dan Kelley

    Dan Kelley - 2004-06-05

    Thus, to build gri, folks have to first install imagemagick.

    I think this is a flaw.  ImageMagick is a nice thing, don't get me wrong, but it's also 2GByte of storage, which is a lot on a laptop.

    If gri shipped with .png files instead of .ps files for the documentation, the package would be smaller.  The questions are:

    1) would this compromise the quality of the postscript version of the manual

    2) can texinfo even HANDLE png files??

     
    • Peter S Galbraith

      Why not simply include both .ps and .png in the tar file?
      e.g. run 'make png' as part of 'make source' .

      Peter

       
      • Dan Kelley

        Dan Kelley - 2004-07-13

        Yes, this is what I was thinking.

        Welcome back!

         

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