ImageMagick

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 10:18:04AM +0200, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 09:44:51AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > > What are the image file formats that we are trying to convert
> > > > from/to? 
> > > 
> > > mainly eps <> png
> > 
> > Which direction is more critical for you?
> > 
> > eps->png can be solved by pdftoppm which will offer eps->pdf->png
> > route in case IM is banned.
> > 
> > We could ask your distro maintainer to include pdftoppm in 
> > lyx dependencies if they decided to ban IM forever.
> 
> Can someone remind me when does eps -> png come up in practice?

The one use I know is that you want preview of eps file in GUI.
I am not sure whether it's useful to DVI production Juergen mentioned earlier.

Pavel