Re: ghostscript depends on jpeg?

[Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>]

In article <20091022151253.GA16176%britannica.bec.de@localhost> Joerg wrote:
: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:53:46AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
: > It seems broken for gs to have internal jpeg anyway.

: IIRC Postscript would have some non-standard JPEG like images included,
: but the details are fuzzy.

  IIRC the jpeg library cannot be built with support for both 8 and 12
bits per components at once, but PostScript supports both, so gs needs
support for both.  (It's been many years, so maybe things have changes
since.)

                                        yours,
                                        dillo