Subject: Re: Graphic Images
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 09:48:57 CDT
According to Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com>:
> <snip because i'm tired of responding to the same argument>
>
> >To illustrate how non trivial this would be, ImageMagick or not, have a
> >look at this book:
> > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565921615>
> >it is over 1100 pages.
>
> See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gdk-pixbuf/index.html. The GDKPixbuf
> reference doc is about 4 pages long for what we need. IM is of similar scope
> (note: for what we need)
In the white paper I'm writting, I propose gdk-pixbuf as an example of
implementation for image rasterizer (GR_Image) and IM as a library for
versatile graphic importer.
> If we choose to do things your way, we're doomed to read *at minimum*
> several hundred of those 1100 pages.
I was not saying that you should, just that the topic of image file formats is
wide, really wide....
I will soon post first draft.
Hub
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