Re: gdk-pixbuf: partial image loading

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Nicolas George <nicolas george ens fr> writes:

> Is it possible, with gdk pixbuf, tu partially load an image? By that, I
> mean to get a pixbuf with only a sub-image or a shrinked image, without
> loading all in memory. This would be really useful in order to load parts
> of huges high resolution images, or scaled to fit on the screen, without
> filling the memory.

No, not possible currently. It's in bugzilla as a RFE:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53726

Whether this is useful or not depends a lot on the format - for
a lot of formats, this doesn't buy you anything, but for, say,
thumbnailing JPEGs, it can be a big win.

Regards,
                                        Owen