Subject: Re: bug#2843: 23.0.92; Emacs.app cannot display X bitmaps

From: Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:27:48 +0200

Am 11.07.2011 um 17:10 schrieb Alp Aker:

> Pyter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> The NS variant of GNU Emacs 24.0.50 shows the GNU Emacs logo slightly
>> different than splash.png
>
> What difference do you see?

The colours of the PNG file are lighter, less saturated and the light  
3D shades at the NE and NW corners have less contrast to the basic  
colour. See attached screen shot!

>> And it cannot display splash.svg
>
> This image format isn't supported on NS, because the Cocoa image  
> library doesn't support svg images. But that's not a bug since the  
> NS port will tell you that it's not supported:
>
>  (image-type-available-p 'svg)
>  ==> nil
>
> In principle the NS port could use librsvg or ImageMagick, but that  
> would require a substantial revision of the image support code, so I  
> doubt it's going to happen any time soon.
>
There is also WebKit, which can handle SVG.

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   Pete

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