Re: [gtk-list] Re: Image Libraries

["David N. Welton" <davidw linuxcare com>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 06:48:37PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> "Shead, Tim" <TShead@ebay.com> writes: 

> > I've been reading all of the imlib vs. gdk-pixbuf vs. libart posts
> > and

> gdk-pixbuf and imlib 1 are image loaders, libart does rendering stuff.

Imlib also allows you to save images back to disk.  Gdk-pixbuf does
not, afaik.

> > * Read/write a large number of formats

> All of them do this

Err... am I mistaken?  Has the capability to write been added to
gdk-pixbuf?  I added the ability to write jpeg's myself, but I haven't
sent the patch in.  I will shortly, provided that no one else has
already done this (and most likely done a better job of it).
 
> > * Portable between *nix / Win32
 
> libart should be portable, gdk-pixbuf could mostly be ported but no
> one has tried. imlib 1 and 2 are X-specific.

Imlib doesn't even work if you can't open an X connection to get it,
as far as I have been able to determine.

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