From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Including images on Sphinx documents
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:03:47 +0100
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On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 8:50:36 AM CET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > [...]
> > > And it may even require "--shell-escape" to be passed at the xelatex
> > > call if inkscape is not in the path, with seems to be a strong
> > > indication that SVG support is not native to texlive, but, instead,
> > > just a way to make LaTeX to call inkscape to do the image conversion.  
> > 
> > Please don't require --shell-escape as part of the TeX workflow.  If
> > LaTeX can't handle the desired image format natively, it needs
> > conversion in advance.
> 
> Agreed. I sent a patch series to linux-doc, doing the conversion in
> advance:
>         https://marc.info/?l=linux-doc&m=147859902804144&w=2
> 
> Not sure why, but the archives don't have all patches yet.
> Anyway, the relevant one is this:
>         https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/commit/?h=pdf-fixes&id=5d41c452c787f6a6c755a3855312435bc439acb8
> 
> It basically calls ImageMagick "convert" tool for all png and
> pdf files currently at the documentation (they're all at media,
> ATM).

It looks like we still need to find a way to address the .gif files
though, as they have the same problem as the .pdf files.

During the kernel summit, I looked around for any binary files in
the kernel source tree, and except for the penguin logo, they are
all in Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/, but they are not all pdf
files, but also .png and .pdf.

	Arnd