Variable: image-use-external-converter

image-use-external-converter is a customizable variable defined in image.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

If non-nil, create-image will use external converters for exotic formats.

Emacs handles most of the common image formats (SVG, JPEG, PNG, GIF and some others) internally, but images that don't have native support in Emacs can still be displayed if an external conversion program (like ImageMagick "convert", GraphicsMagick "gm" or "ffmpeg") is installed.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 27.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 27.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/image.el.gz
(defcustom image-use-external-converter nil
  "If non-nil, `create-image' will use external converters for exotic formats.
Emacs handles most of the common image formats (SVG, JPEG, PNG, GIF
and some others) internally, but images that don't have native
support in Emacs can still be displayed if an external conversion
program (like ImageMagick \"convert\", GraphicsMagick \"gm\"
or \"ffmpeg\") is installed."
  :type 'boolean
  :version "27.1")