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This is the imagemagick branch of Emacs. Imagemagick can now be used
to load many new image formats, and also do useful transforms like
scaling and rotation.

This file will attempt to contain draft NEWS, Changelog and manual
entries for the new functionality. 

You might need to regenerate the configure scripts:
aclocal
automake
autoheader
autoconf
./configure --with-imagemagick



* TODO
** complete documentation drafts below

** fix inconsistencys with spelling of imagemagick in the src
** report number of images in image bundle types somehow
** probably add pdf to inhibited types
** inhibit types is defconst should probably be defcustom
** decide what to do with some uncommitted imagemagick support
  functions for image size etc.
** Test with more systems
Tested on Fedora 12 so far, and the libmagick that ships with it.
Ubuntu 8.04 was also tested, but it seems it ships a broken ImageMagick.
Also need some way to handle render methods that only work on newer ImageMagicks


* NEWS entry
** ImageMagick support
It is now possible to use the Imagemagick library to load many new
image formats in Emacs.

To enable, use the following configure option:
--with-imagemagick

The new function (imagemagick-types) returns a list of image file
extensions that your installation of imagemagick supports.

The function (imagemagick-register-types) will enable the imagemagick
support for the extensions in imagemagick-types minus the types listed
in imagemagick-types-inhibit.

imagemagick-types-inhibit has the value  '(C HTML HTM TXT) by default.
This means imagemagick will be used also to load jpeg files, if you
have both jpeg and imagemagick libraries linked. Add 'JPG to
imagemagick-types-inhibit if you do not want this.

Images loaded with imagemagick will support a couple of new display
specifications:

- scale
- rotation
- index

See the ImageMagick manual for information on how these specifications
work.

The image-metadata function can be used to retrieve the total number
of images in an image bundle, and the :index property can be used to
show a particular image within the bundle. This is simmilar to how GIF
files work.



* Changelog entry
nothing yet

* Manual entry
nothing yet