Re: gdk_pixbuf problems displaying some images

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Scott Gifford <sgifford suspectclass com> writes:
> I can't get a gdk_pixmap to display some PNG images, such as the one
> at:
>
>     http://www.suspectclass.com/~sgifford/imagemagick/example-out.png
>
> Instead, it displays an image of grey and white stripes.  Mozilla and
> ImageMagick can display this image fine.  It was created by
> ImageMagick, but I've had the same problem with some PNGs created by
> GhostScript.
>
> file(1) describes the image as:
>
>      PNG image data, 618 x 814, 8-bit grayscale, non-interlaced
>
> I'm testing with my own application which uses gdk_pixbuf, and also
> with Electric Eyes (ee).
>
> Anybody got any ideas?  Is there a better place to ask this question?

It's probably a bug in the gdk-pixbuf PNG loader. Your image works
with the devel version of gdk-pixbuf (that comes with GTK 1.3), but
not all the bugfixes in that version have been backported to 0.11.

Havoc