Subject: Re: Couldn't we....
From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 08:54:59 CST
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 09:32, Kyle wrote:
> Couldn't we use GDK_PixBuf for the image importing? The only mainstream
> format that it doesn't already support that I know of is BMP. I think
> this would be a much easier solution than ImageMagick since we are using
> GDK anyways. Any suggestions.
This issue has already been torn to shreds, mostly by myself
(http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/April/0548.html)
We already use Gdk-Pixbuf for image rendering on Unix/Gnome and it's
really quite fast (well, fast if you're not on a Sparc). The problem is
that we want to be able to save all incoming images as PNGs internally
and in our file format for various important reasons. GdkPixbuf 1.0 does
*not* have an API for doing conversions or saving as different types.
The ever-soon upcoming release of GdkPixbuf, being used in the fathom
Gnome2 and Gtk+2 products, will have this capability. So when we port
Abi to Gtk+2, we'll make a plugin that will use GdkPixbuf to convert
incoming image types to PNG. Until then, everyone will just have to
deal.
Dom
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