GNU bug report logs - #963
no support for viewing bmp images?

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#963: no support for viewing bmp images?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:11:10 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> When I compile the current master branch using --with-imagemagick,
> viewing bmp images works for me.  But imagemagick is now disabled by
> default (and rightly so).  Without imagemagick compiled in I just get
> garbled text when opening a bmp file.
>
> Using Emacs 26.1 from Debian I can view BMP images just fine, as
> expected, since it comes with imagemagick support.
>
> It seems to me that Emacs is missing BMP support if built without
> imagemagick.  It would be nice to not depend on that library for this
> use case.

Are BMP images used much, though?  I can't remember the last time I saw
one in the wild.

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