Subject: Re: image support (was Re: Core-dump during startup on AIX-4.3.2)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 19:00:40 CST
At 02:15 PM 3/2/00 -0600, Justin Bradford wrote:
>I recommend we use gdk-pixbuf as a model. Basically, we do the simple
>formats (ie. BMP) ourselves and link to libs for the hard ones (ie. JPEG).
We've been over this one before, but I'll raise it again...
WHY do we want to invent the wheel rather than simply use
ImageMagick? It's available for all/most (I don't think there is a QNX
port) of the target platforms and it already abstracts out image stuff for
us, especially using all the libraries.
>libjpeg, libungif, libtiff, etc, should be pretty portable. The ungif
>source might small enough to just copy, too...
Keep in mind that supporting compressed GIF images requires a
license from Unisys.
Leonard
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