Re: [Groff] groff Image Formats

[Larry Kollar]

Gunnar Ritter wrote:

> In general, it is rather pointless to request that
> groff -Tps accepts images in formats other than EPS
> since it would have to convert them internally to
> a representation effectively identical to EPS in any
> case. Thus, hacking groff to convert images e.g.
> using the ImageMagick library would lead to exactly
> the same issues you have with calling the ImageMagick
> command line utilities explicitly.

While technically you're correct, it's not exactly pointless.
Groff supports output to formats other than PS, and it
would be nice to have groff do the right thing (for the
selected output format) behind the scenes. If nothing else,
it would help keep things cleaner wrt source control.

I suppose such would require unsafe mode, with all the
issues that go with it.

-- Larry