[cairo] How to load a BMP/JPG/TGA to a Surface?

[Maarten Bosmans]

2010/6/1 Mj Mendoza IV <mjmendoza at konsolscript.org>:
> Mj Mendoza IV <mjmendoza <at> konsolscript.org> writes:
>
>> See this image to see what I mean.
> http://konsolscript.org/~mjmendoza/freebasic/cairo/bmp-problem.png
>
> I temporarily settled to using a hackish way to correct the image by
> repositioning the pixels. Although, this could seem to be permanent in my case
> unless FreeBASIC Dev try fixing it or the Cairo devs provide an API for loading
> other image format.

AFAIK the png load/save feature of Cairo is meant as a convenience
facility for debugging purposes only.

This means that it will never be possible to adjust parameters for
saving to png, nor to load from/save to other bitmap formats.

You will have to use other libraries for that.

> Regards.
>
> Mj Mendoza IV,
> Developer, KonsolScript
> http://www.konsolscript.org

Maarten