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24.4; Unable to do image transforms even when emacs is compiled with Imagemagick

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From: Kaushal <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18797: 24.4; Unable to do image transforms even when emacs is compiled with Imagemagick
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:50:57 -0400

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I went deeper in the references bug posts and I found the answer in bug #
10112!

I had to add:

(add-to-list 'image-type-header-regexps '("\\`\377\330" . imagemagick))

But just for my knowledge, what is "\\`\377\330" ?




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Kaushal Modi

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Kaushal <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <rgm <at> gnu.org> 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?
>>
>
>

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