<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Hello, PNG is directly supported via cairo_image_surface_create_from_png. Is there any way that I could load BMP/JPG/TGA without being tied to a specific library to avoid bloat? Is there a minimalist reusable 'standalone' function that directly loads a BMP/JPG/TGA into the memory which cairo could use? BTW, I am using Cairo with a FreeBASIC (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.freebasic.net">http://www.freebasic.net</a> -- a free and open dialect of BASIC; think of FreePascal). Using C-libraries is as simple as translating only the header files then FreeBASIC can easily use the pre-compiled lib files (.a, .lib) For sample codes and test renders of Cairo on FreeBASIC, see: <a target="_blank" href="http://konsolscript.org/%7Emjmendoza/freebasic/cairo/">http://konsolscript.org/~mjmendoza/freebasic/cairo/</a> FreeBASIC already have 'standalone' reusable functions that loads JPG/TGA (BMP is internally supported via BLoad). However, when I pass the loaded image to cairo, it has an offset of 8-pixels. See this image to see what I mean. <a target="_blank" href="http://konsolscript.org/%7Emjmendoza/freebasic/cairo/bmp-problem.png">http://konsolscript.org/~mjmendoza/freebasic/cairo/bmp-problem.png</a> <div> The original file is on the left-side while the right-side shows how cairo renders the loaded image. Below is the code that loaded and passed the BMP file to Cairo. Dim imgCairo As Cairo_Surface_T Dim imgBMP As Integer Ptr '1. read the width and height of the BMP file from the BMP file header Dim As Integer f = FreeFile Dim As Integer  wid, hgt Open "file.bmp" For Binary Access Read As #f   Get #f, 19, wid   Get #f, 23, hgt Close #f '2. allocate a memory of that size imgBMP = ImageCreate(wid, hgt, RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0), 32) '3. load the BMP file to the allocated memory BLoad "file.bmp", imgBMP '4. pass the memory to a Cairo Surface imgCairo = Cairo_Image_Surface_Create_For_Data(imgBMP, CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, wid, hgt, wid * Len(Integer)) I know that I should also inform the FreeBASIC developers and/or community, I am just hoping that some of cairo users could have already written a non-official patch to directly load BMP/JPG/TGA on a Cairo Surface (ex. cairo_image_surface_create_from_bmp, cairo_image_surface_create_from_jpg, or cairo_image_surface_create_from_tga) </div>Regards. Mj Mendoza IV, Developer, KonsolScript <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.konsolscript.org">http://www.konsolscript.org</a></div> </body></html>