On 28 Aug 2014, claudius.mueller@gmail.com wrote:

> I am using emacs 24.3 in openSUSE 13.1. I have not compiled emacs
> myself, but the core imagemagick libraries are part of the
> dependencies, which makes me assume that it's been compiled with
> imagemagick support.

No, the Emacs in OpenSuSE 13.1 is not compiled with Image Magick
support- "ldd /usr/bin/emacs | grep Magick" produces nothing. Where as,
this is the output of my self-compiled version.

,----[ ldd /usr/local/bin/emacs | grep Magick ]
| libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.1 (0x00007fe7e8072000)
| libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.1 (0x00007fe7e7bd3000
`----

> I can display inline images of several file types just fine (tif, png,
> gif, ...).

This is because Emacs is using libtiff, libjpeg, libpng, libxpm etc.

Charles

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