[Xastir] Cygwin ImageMagick might be fixed

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Jeremy Utley wrote:

> Is there something wrong with simply using the appropriate raw
> graphics libs (libpng, libgif/libungif, libjpeg)?  I don't know
> exactly what the code in Xastir is doing, but the raw libs have a
> pretty much stable API in themselves (libpng a little less than the
> other two).

It'd be a lot of coding changes to do this.  With ImageMagick we get
a bunch of different formats by coding for one API.

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