[cairo] Help with images

[John K Luebs]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:02:07AM -0700, Sanjay Gupta wrote:
> Hi List,
> I was having a look at using cairo for image manipulations,
> but after going through the docs and samples provided
> it seems to me that to work with images (say opening an image file)
> we need to work with image specific backend. Is my observation correct
> or am i missing something? All the sample provided, make a call to
> libpng for
> storing a image. Does the same hold for opening an image also?
> How do we work with jpegs and other image formats.