Re: [gtk-list] Re: PLUG-INS access outside gimp?

[Chris Laas <chrisl cybercom net>]

On 16 Jul, owt1@cornell.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> I want to do some manipulations with TIFF images using gtk.  Is there
>> any way to use the tiff.c plug-in to load/save TIFF files into/from
>> the internal bitmap representation of gimp.  
> 
> Not to discourage you, but it seems pretty complicated to take
> over the role of the GIMP in communicating with plug-ins, largely
> because of the need to handle tiles.

Being the starry-eyed optimist that I am, I can't resist suggesting: 
why not try to make the PDB/tiles interface a library?  (Or two
separate libraries would be even better...)  I've thought that the PDB
would make ideal scripting language glue for other applications as
well, and a tiled-image library could act similarly to ImageMagick's
libmagick (but better, of course :) .

Note, of course, that I have no familiarity with ImageMagick internals,
I realize that the tiles and PDB code must be inextricably tangled with
the rest of the Gimp, and that there is another language glue package
available (whose name I can't remember, and of which I know nothing
except of its existence).  That said, it would still be cool!

--Chris

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