Re: [gtkmm] (no subject)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

GNOME can use SVG images, so there must be some support for it
somewhere. I guess it involves librsvg. You might look at gnome-games
for examples of displaying SVG images.

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 21:49 +0200, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Paulo Pinto <pjmlp progtools org> writes:
> 
> > If I'm not mistaken you can read SVG images but I'm not aware of
> > capabilities to read other vector formats. Someone correct me if
> > I'm wrong.
> 
> GTK+ installs binary loaders, e.g.:
> 
>   ole:~$ ls /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders
>   libpixbufloader-ani.la   libpixbufloader-pcx.la  libpixbufloader-tiff.la
>   libpixbufloader-ani.so   libpixbufloader-pcx.so  libpixbufloader-tiff.so
>   libpixbufloader-bmp.la   libpixbufloader-png.la  libpixbufloader-wbmp.la
>   libpixbufloader-bmp.so   libpixbufloader-png.so  libpixbufloader-wbmp.so
>   libpixbufloader-gif.la   libpixbufloader-pnm.la  libpixbufloader-xbm.la
>   libpixbufloader-gif.so   libpixbufloader-pnm.so  libpixbufloader-xbm.so
>   libpixbufloader-ico.la   libpixbufloader-ras.la  libpixbufloader-xpm.la
>   libpixbufloader-ico.so   libpixbufloader-ras.so  libpixbufloader-xpm.so
>   libpixbufloader-jpeg.la  libpixbufloader-tga.la  svg_loader.so
>   libpixbufloader-jpeg.so  libpixbufloader-tga.so
> 
> You can ask what MIME types they support with
> 'gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders'. So if you want another format, I think you
> have two options: either write a back-end loader for GTK+ (which
> anyone can then use) or write a custom one which simply converts the
> vector format into the Gdk::Pixbuf format (four bytes pr. pixel,
> RGBA).
> 
> Or you could always use the 'convert' program from ImageMagick to
> convert the image (perhaps ImageMagick even provides an in-program
> representation you can use).
> 
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