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thumbs and image-dired to use built-in ImageMagick

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Message #6 received at 10758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: thumbs and image-dired to use built-in ImageMagick
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:47:59 +0100

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Package: emacs
> Version: 24.0.93
> Severity: wishlist
>
> thumbs.el and image-dired.el both rely on using external ImageMagick
> utilities to resize/rotate images.
>
> If Emacs was compiled with ImageMagick support, then images of
> type imagemagick can be resized and rotated internally (see
> image-transform-*). These modes should use the internal support if
> it exists.

So now that we have native image rotation and ImageMagick is on its
way to become deprecated, I assume that this bug should be taken to
mean that we want to use the built-in support here instead.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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