ImageMagick convert -- a required bundle to handle EPS on Windows and OSX?

[V Stuart Foote]

Looking at issue fdo#62051
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62051>  , why no versions of
LibreOffice seem to handle insertion of EPS.

Looking in OpenGrok at  ieps.cxx
<http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/filter/source/graphicfilter/ieps/ieps.cxx>  
Linux seems to use the GhostScript -- gs command that is commonly bundled. 
But Windows seems to require use of ImageMgaick convert command.  That is
not normally a program a Windows user would install!

So, I installed an ImageMagick binary (32-bit static
ImageMagick-6.8.9-0-Q16-x86-static.exe) from
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php  and all versions of
LibreOffice through 4.1.x now render a viable image of the EPS.

Can find nothing noting a requirement for ImageMagick as a install
dependency, should ImageMagick be bundled if EPS rendering is depending on
it?  Also, for releases from 4.2.0.4 on, the insert image from EPS results
in a fully black fill for the image preview--suspect that is the move from
PNG to BMP and needs to be adjusted.
 




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