Re: Basic image manipulation

["Leandro A. F. Pereira" <leandro linuxmag com br>]

Quoted by a group of angry mosquitos
For `Goran Raki__ <gox devbase net>' 
On Thursday, 25 December 2003 (23:18):

>  I have a program where user needs to select an image (in JPEG or GIF format) 
>  and I need to store it in database. I can read it from selected file, and 
>  show it as GtkImage with GdkPixbuf in application, but...
>
>  I need to verify if image type is JPEG or GIF and than to resize it to 200px 
>  width. Can Gtk&Gdk do that, or I need to use something other like GD library?

        GdkPixbuf allows you to resize an image and also save it to a file. You can
then store the resulting data in your database. Please look at the API reference
for more details.

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