Re: Create XV style previews

[Bodo Bauer <bb zenguin com>]

Iain (nodatadj@webtribe.net) wrote:
> > does anybody have a routine to create XV styel previews? I found code
> > to read and display them in the GIMP sources. This works fine. Of
> > course there is code to create them too, but it seems to me that to get
> > those functions working, I'll end up copying half of the GIMP code.
> 
> I'm not really sure what you mwean by XV style previews, but if you just
> want to shrink an image gdk_imlib has the functions to take an image and
> render it at any size.
> 
> Sorry if thats not what you meant.

Unfortunatly it's not. I'd like to be compatible with The GIMP and
as the GIMP stores preview images in XV format, I'd like to generate
those files. The format is weird and without the GIMP source I'd
never been able to read them.

Ciao,	
	BB
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