[7268] in SIPB bug reports
Re: no jpeg device in gs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sun May 9 23:13:41 1999
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte), gnu@MIT.EDU (gnu locker maintainers),
bug-sipb@MIT.EDU (sipb locker maintainers)
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 09 May 1999 23:12:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: amu@MIT.EDU's message of "09 May 1999 16:52:15 -0400"
>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron M Ucko <amu@MIT.EDU> writes:
Aaron> <belmonte@MIT.EDU> (Matthew Belmonte) writes:
>> A user phoned today with a report that she was unable to
>> generate jpeg output from xfig. Further enquiries revealed
>> that the gs installed in the gnu locker does not have support
>> for the jpeg output device compiled in. The user was able to
>> work around the problem by going through a tiff format. This
>> seems like the sort of problem that's likely to recur; perhaps
>> jpeg support can be compiled into the installed copy of gs.
Aaron> This is actually a bug in fig2dev which I can fix after the
Aaron> term ends. (The gs sources in the gnu locker don't seem to
Aaron> have any support for jpeg output.)
One might ask why we don't build a non-GNU gs with a reasonable set of
output devices if the gnu one doesn't support common graphics formats like jpeg.
(we == sipb, to be installed in sipb or some other locker)
