Re: GDI+

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

The libjpegtran code is there to explicitly support lossless jpeg
rotation, lossy rotation is trivial to implement and not very
interesting.  As for using Gdi+ for other display tasks I'd only want to
depend on it if there was a compelling reason to.

--Larry

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 19:51 +0000, MOREAU Vincent wrote: 
> I made some test to use the System.Drawing classes included in the .Net
> Gdi+ API. It allow us to rotate, crop, or thumbnail photos with a very
> few lines of code. It's simple and maybe useful to drop dependency over
> the libspot.dll or libjpegtran.dll.
> 
> But for the moment it seems that quality isn't there. Rotating a jpeg
> photo greatly decrease it's quality. 
> 
> I don't know what is the status of the System.Drawing API, but if the
> quality improve with the 1.0 release of mono it could be interesting to
> move to this for photo manipulations.
> 
> Comments are welcome.
>