Thanks for your reply. I evaluated (setq image-type-header-regexps nil) and verified that it is actually set to nil by doing C-h v on that variable. But (eq image-type 'imagemagick) is still returning nil and I am M-: (image-transform-set-scale 0.1) still does nothing. -- Kaushal Modi On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > This message was over 1 MB. Please compress attachments in future. > No need to resend this one, since interested people can fetch the > attachment > from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18797#5 . > (But I think it has no relevance anyway.) > > Kaushal wrote: > > > I have compiled emacs with Imagemagick (the config.log file is attached). > > > > But "M-x image-transform-set-scale" is not working for me. The image > scale > > stays the same when I set the scale to 0.5. I tested it with bot png and > > jpg images. > > > > But the eimp package is working fine (which uses mogrify from > Imagemagick). > > > > When an image is open in a buffer, evaluating "(eq image-type > > 'imagemagick)" returns "nil". > > Right, so it's not an ImageMagick image, so you can't transform it. > Emacs uses libjpeg for jpgs by default. > Try testing it on a format that Emacs does't support otherwise, eg bmp. > You have to force the images to be created with type imagemagick to be > able to scale them. This remains poorly documented IMO; > http://debbugs.gnu.org/10746 > > > What am I missing in enabling the imagemagick detection for functions > like > > image-transform-set-scale? >